Re: !

% wrote:
> jojo wrote:
>> yoyleguy wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> i use it for emphasis, you see, punctuations are meant to 
>> convey a certain tone or pace or breaks that occur in normal 
>> speech and the puncs are shortcuts for those.
>>
>> of course in work settings seldom used, unless its being used 
>> in a campaign.. but not really for interpersonal.. unless the 
>> person is very mad in the head or neurotic.
>>
> hi

did you know this whole hi and hello thing did not exist before 
the invention of the telephone?

people just used to say wassup in the 1800s and prior.