Excessive Exclamation!!: Slowly!, Softly!, Quietly! Please!!!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Slowly!, Softly!, Quietly! Please!!!

This has to come in as my new favorite, seen in a home for the elderly. The commas following the exclamation points is just classic, and the fact that the sign seems to be screaming at you while commanding you to be slow, soft, and quiet, is just awesome. Nice work, guys.

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The Grammar Police

The exclamation point is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), and often marks the end of a sentence. Example, "Watch Out!" A Sentence ending in an exclamation mark is an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), the imperative mood ("Stop!"), or intended to be astonishing or show astonishment ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!). Overly frequent use of the exclamation mark is generally considered poor writing, for it distracts the reader and reduces the mark's meaning. And, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes."