Excessive Exclamation!!: !!!!! Misfeed has occurred. !!!!!

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

!!!!! Misfeed has occurred. !!!!!

Submitted by Shawn, who writes,

"The photocopier in the library wants me to know that a misfeed has occurred! And it must be really serious judging by the number of exclamation marks!!"

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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."