Woohoo! A Continuation of Exclamation Points!! As noted in Part 1, exclamation points can affect the tone. The punctuation mark gives a heightened sense of emotion, and this can be positive (as in Happy Birthday!!!) or it can read in a more negative way (as in some business communications). “Thank Read more…
Woohoo! Exclamation Points!!! One might think that a mark as simple as an exclamation point wouldn’t need a two-part post. That’s probably true. But this post is not just about the exclamation point as punctuation; it’s also about tone in communication, of which the exclamation point can play a big Read more…
I worked almost forty years as a psychiatric nurse, spending the last twenty-plus years as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. My father was a Marine captured on Wake Island during WWII and served four years as a Prisoner of War in China and Japan. I married an Air Force fighter pilot Read more…