What's with all the crazy punctuating these days? It's one thing to go a little overboard with your question marks and/or exclamation points when telling a story or relating an anecdote, it's quite another to starting flinging them around AT people.
When are you going to ________?????????
Why did you ______?????????
You need to ______!!!!!!!!
Or my very favorite, throwing in the fake "we" as in We need to _______!!!!!!!!! when the author has no intention of actually helping.
I'm sensing a little hostility.
Why not just be direct - "Hey stupid, when are you doing to get your sh#t together?
or
Why are you you such a screw up?
or
Get off you a$$ and do what I want you to do right now!!!
Of course, what would be even better if people could be nice AND direct.
Hey, do you think you could ______?
I was wondering if we'd ever tried ______?
You get the idea.
The bottom line is I am over the runaway punctuation and the next time someone starts throwing exclamation points at me I'm going to throw them back.
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Sorry!!! I'll try to do better!!!!!!! Forgive me??????
OK... I can't think of anything clever to say... I just wanted to do this... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm more of a dot girl...
LOL. You guys crack me up. :) Trust me, I did not have either one of you in mind when I wrote that rant.
I'm a recovering passive-aggressive punctuator.
I'm more of a dot girl too... I can't seem to break myself of that habit...
We've got a client at work who adds several ??? always.
The extra marks instantly take a mundane question straight to potential diaster level without any need to say anything else.
Makes him look like a Chicken Little, I think.
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