The overuse of exclamation points! - E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.”

The overuse of exclamation points!

- E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.”

Date April 26, 2012

Notes 130

Tags #exclamation points    #punctuation    #grammar    #grammedica    #bangorrhea   

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    I suffer.
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    As an English major, I can’t not reblog this. I will say this, however - I have a pretty strong hatred for when people...
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    Yes. Too many exclamation points in emails. Ugh
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    Without an omnipresent...point, my electronic communication sounded as if it was written...
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    I’m extremely cognizant of this, but I’m always afraid if I don’t toss in some exclamation points, my texts or e-mails...