Excessive Exclamation!!: Our new Spring menu!!!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Our new Spring menu!!!

"Do you think people will get excited about our new heirloom "couliflower" soup?"

"Hmm, better put three exclamation points to help generate some buzz."

By the way, did they put a dot over the lower case l in "couliflower?"

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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."