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Tikay!!!
So school children are now being told that the use of an exclamation will be marked wrong unless the sentence starts with 'what' or 'how'
Is this the evil power of the TK, spreading throughout the land?
Is this the evil power of the TK, spreading throughout the land?
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Ha, "evil power" indeed. It's just the correct - or incorrect - use of grammer in the written form which irks me so.
Did you know that if you win a hand on Sky Poker, a graphic comes up.....
"Congratulations, you have won!"
You get that even if you are "walked", in the Blinds. Play 30 DYM's per night as I do & you'll se that repeated roughly 500 times. Lord only knows how often a multi-tabling cash player or Heads Up players sees that in a single session. Does someone really think we read or need that? (Rh).
We get those push messages, too.
"The brand new £2 Timed Tournament starts in 5 minutes, register now!"
Yikes......
We receive an e-Mail - all players do - from Sky Poker every week, mentioning a few Promos. It averages 7 sentences, 5 of which end with an exclamation mark.
I care vey much indeed about the reputation of Sky Poker, as you may know, & that sort of stuff bugs me terribly, it's so so wrong.
I was a late learner when it came to written English, but I vividly remember the lesson on this - if you construct sentences well enough, they do not need an exclamation mark. They DO have a use, & it's fine to use them, but they must be used sparingly, failing which they lose their shock or surprise value.
google is endlessly helpful us here.....
http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/avoiding-exclamation-point-overuse/
This is excellent.....
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/exclamation-point-flowchart
Includes.....
"Words are what we should use to get our readers excited about our content, not punctuation".
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/25/how-mail-and-texting-have-driven-people-overuse-exclamation-points-confessions-serial-exclamation-pointer/bSKe7sq0TEZLHcq1bq5A7M/story.html
Includes.....
"This exclamation epidemic has become so dire that there’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang bangorrhea."
http://www.inc.com/larry-kim/avoid-this-one-punctuation-habit-that-will-destroy-your-credibility.html
"Overusing this one piece of punctuation gives your communications a distinctly middle school flavor and kills your credibility"
Anyway, don't start me off, or I'll be ranting.
I should add that I fight Sky Poker's corner endlessly, & know all about being on-message, as the current jargon has it. There are, however, limits.
Maybe it's an age thing, & in the modern world they are perfectly acceptable. I take The Times every day, have done for 50 years or more. Not sure I've ever seen a single exclamation mark in there.
Guess I'm just a curmudgeonly old wrinklie, out of touch with modern thinking.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Education/article1675680.ece