On Punctuation: The Exclaimation Mark
I’ve heard many different ways of explaining the exclamation mark but this one is new…
CSR says:
We need to make your password more secure in order to submit it, so everything will stay the same except now there’s going to be an exclamation point on the end, ok?”
Customer says:
“that’s the baseball with the bat on top, right?”
I love some of the other things wikipedia had to say about the exclamation mark:
In typesetting or printing (and therefore when spelling text out orally), the exclamation mark is called a screamer or bang. “Bang” is also common in computer programming slang. Less common names in publishing include “gasper”, “startler”, and even “dog’s cock”.
This post inspired by a hard working gent at http://www.scout.com.