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People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Jane Austen's Persuasion

We don't actually have a lot of manuscripts by Jane Austen and there are some from her when she was a young teenager. It's not the very prim and lady author that maybe posterity and we now want to think of her it's actually somebody who's very aware of feelings and why people need to perhaps sort of repress and channel their feelings in her novels. She has lots of dashes words underlined exclamation marks and semicolons and dashes so it's quite a crowded page scratching out as well not very much.

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