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WHY I RARELY USE EXCLAMATION POINTS.

August 16, 2018 at 1:48 PM · Uncategorized

WHY I RARELY US EXCLAMATION POINTS. Katherine Bindley cites Dr. Celia Klin, a professor who researches psycholinguistics, who argues that;”Since email and texts have become substitutes for spoken conversation, people started using punctuation for emphasis and tone instead of just as a way to mark the end of sentence.”

I use periods only to mark the end of a sentence—with rare exceptions.

It could be because I have used a keyboard primarily for fairly businesslike communication. However, I think it’s laziness. An exclamation point presents the difficult of shifting, and I have enough trouble with initial capitals and symbols.