Re: !

jojo wrote:
> % 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.
> 
no , they stopped and talked and had no hurrys