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Sn!pe wrote:
> yoyleguy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I don't think I have seen many use the exclaimation mark, as I call it
>> (though I do hear it has many other such names) at all. It's always
>> seemed like something intended solely for the playwright and the
>> toddler, not the regular person. In fact, notice my lack of usage for
>> it? Exactly. This is merely a byproduct of it being childish.
>>
>
> My generation was taught how to punctuate properly at school!
>
> How do you feel about: semicolons; quotation marks; parentheses;
> and (of course) the star performer, the apostrophe? How about the
> Oxford comma?
>
hi