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[lupestripe]

After all the talk about the BNP on Question Time last night and the bipolarity of opinion it has caused - on which I could write an entire treatise if I could be bothered - I would just like to say that I hate the exclaimation mark. It is a completely superfluous piece of punctuation and should be banned from the English language immediately.

Comments

[kitsunefury.livejournal.com]

Great. Now everyone will speak in flat monotones, like we're from a bad porn film. :

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

"I'm here to fix the washing machine."

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

How is your nono zone by the way *touches it*

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

Eek!

Cold paws!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Are you? Good, because I put my mobile phone in it the other week.

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

Can I watch while he "fixes" it? ;P

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

How will it affect speech? The exclaimation mark is a piece of written punctuation. English isn't tonal and written English doesn't express this.