Tomorrow is Friday! And then a 3-day weekend! Exclamation points!
When I was an English teacher, I fought the uphill battle of trying to get teenage girls to use fewer exclamation points. They like not only an exclamation point at the end of every sentence, but multiple exclamation points at the ends of sentences because they are just so excited!!!!!!
I tried to tell them that over-use weakens the effect, but it was a hard concept for them. For teenagers, more is more.
I am phlegmatic enough to be satisfied with a period. or full stop, as the British say. And I'm enough of an English nerd to get a quiet satisfaction out of the proper use of a semicolon.
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