People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)
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The History of the Exclamation Point
Minnyon: I'm writing a whole sort of social history of punctuation at the moment. She was researching brackets in Renaissance romance that texts about knife traveling to forest being distracted by the main quest and going elsewhere. And she thought there must be a reason why we're using it, why we haven't been to this and why we still have it because as you know, usually if we don't need anything anymore, we just discard it.
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