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 Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:59 am
BerylAlexandros Rose McCann I'm not very fond of exclamation points in formal writing, though. xp Oh, me neither. There should be rules against exclamation point abuse. Well, like all punctuation, you have to know where and when to put an exclamation point. You don't see elipses in formal writing very often, either; yet they are common in informal writing where people can trail off on a train of thought. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 2:00 pm
Exclamation points don't always suit the writing, even if it should; I'll agree to that. There's times that you want to see an exclamation point in a piece of writing because it fits, and then there's other times that, though it should go there ("The candle blew out by itself!"), it looks weird. Especially too many in one place.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:20 pm
Commas and quotation marks rock my grammatical world.
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 12:50 am
Sailor_Chibi You don't see elipses in formal writing very often, either; yet they are common in informal writing where people can trail off on a train of thought. 3nodding And that's why I think "..." (and the respective "...." for when you don't intend on continuing the thought...ever) are my personal favorites. Or at least favorites in terms of default favorites due to overuse....
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:59 pm
Quotation marks, question marks (they're fun to write, yo.) and ellipses, baby!
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:18 pm
Puppa Exclamation points don't always suit the writing, even if it should; I'll agree to that. There's times that you want to see an exclamation point in a piece of writing because it fits, and then there's other times that, though it should go there ("The candle blew out by itself!"), it looks weird. Especially too many in one place. I'll sing to that. I can't count the number of times I've read something by someone where they have a sentence ending with an ecxclamation mark that looks weird. I mean, technically, it's okay for the sentence to end that way, but it just looks wrong, you know? I find sometimes that's a big part of punctuation judgement. Some things just look wrong.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:27 am
Sailor_Chibi I mean, technically, it's okay for the sentence to end that way, but it just looks wrong, you know? I find sometimes that's a big part of punctuation judgement. Some things just look wrong. Yeah. I feel really weird using exclaimation marks in most cases. It feels like fake happiness.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:26 am
MagdalenaDown Sailor_Chibi I mean, technically, it's okay for the sentence to end that way, but it just looks wrong, you know? I find sometimes that's a big part of punctuation judgement. Some things just look wrong. Yeah. I feel really weird using exclaimation marks in most cases. It feels like fake happiness. Exactly. Like you're getting excited over nothing.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:29 pm
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:58 pm
I have to say I prefer the period. I'm learning to use other forms properly but the period always feels the most natural. Dashes and colons create interesting effects in papers, but they should be used sparingly.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:43 pm
Sailor_Chibi Exactly. Like you're getting excited over nothing.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:53 pm
The Satah Sailor_Chibi Exactly. Like you're getting excited over nothing. I know, and it's a lot of fun, but sometimes when you're writing it just doesn't look right.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:08 pm
Personally, I believe that exclamation points are beyond overused. There should be a limit to how many can be used in a given time. The "..." actually confuses me because I am never quite sure of how to use it. I think that I will have to go with the comma and the apostophe because I always correct the people who use them incorrectly.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 4:22 pm
Sailor_Chibi I know, and it's a lot of fun, but sometimes when you're writing it just doesn't look right.
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