Re: Exclamation Points are Good! Message #7 Posted by Palmer O. Hanson, Jr. on 20 Apr 2007, 9:49 p.m., in response to message #6 by Earl Kubaskie
The article that I quoted on the subject of exclamation points began with the following paragraph:
"E-mail isn't the most self-conscious medium; haste and volume encourage many correspondents to forget themselves. Still, everyone settles on a style. The lower-case non-punctuators, the serial capitalizers, the rhetorical questioners, the subpoena-anticipators, the posterity watchers: they all have their reasons, and their conceits."
The emphasis is mine.
All this talk about capitals and lower case reminds me of Archie and Mehitabel in the poetry of Don Marquis. Does anyone else remember "CAPITALS AT LAST!!!!"
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