Excessive Exclamation!!: July 2012

Saturday, July 28, 2012

TODAY!!!!!

Just in case you didn't know that July 26th was today, and just in case you didn't know that Thursday was today, we have a nice, subtle, all-caps, all-red, quintuple exclamation point reminder that this event is in fact TODAY!!!!!

Iced Coffee!!

Two f's, two e's, and two exclamation points.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

This is not family support!!

Glad they cleared things up.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Free Pizza!!!

I don't think this is actually an excessive use of exclamation. I think it's a secret code to let people know that they can get three free pieces of pizza.

Do Not Lay Flat!!

A box seen at Costco, laid flat in a stack of about six other boxes.

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."