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Answer: How many exclamation marks are too many?
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green-grrl.livejournal.comOne of our readers asks, “How many exclamation marks are too many? What is the standard usage on number of exclamation marks in a sentence or on a page?”
This sounds like a question born in the era of OMG!!!!!1!!1eleventy!, but questions around overuse of exclamation marks—or exclamation points in American English—have been around for much longer. ( Here is some advice, old and new, with examples from Stargate SG-1. )
This sounds like a question born in the era of OMG!!!!!1!!1eleventy!, but questions around overuse of exclamation marks—or exclamation points in American English—have been around for much longer. ( Here is some advice, old and new, with examples from Stargate SG-1. )
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