I had an English professor in college who once explained why we should never use exclamation points. “Let the words in the sentence convey the intensity,” he said. “Not the exclamation point.” The ...

Writing an email might seem like common sense—just type out what you want to say and hit send, right? But once your fingers hit the keyboard, things can get a little tricky. It’s not always the words ...

The only literary work about punctuation I'm aware of is an odd early story by Anton Chekhov called "The Exclamation Mark." After getting into an argument with a colleague about punctuation, a school ...

We have already covered the difficult question of how to use emojis in the workplace. Now I will be leading you through an advanced course on whether or not you should use exclamation points. But ...

In an essay published in 1895 called “How to Tell a Story,” Mark Twain chastised writers who use “whooping exclamation-points” that reveal them laughing at their own humor, “all of which is very ...

If there is any feeling to be found in the joyless brick of human knowledge that we call the smartphone, certainly, it lives in our punctuation. On a rainy Monday morning, I found myself thinking, as ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Exclamation points used to be a rare signal of extreme intensity. Now they're everywhere, from news headlines to business emails and text messages ...

If you’re trying to get yourself uninvited from your Aunt Edith’s unbearable holiday fondue party, I suggest you try this trick: Send her a Christmas card that includes not one exclamation point.