Monday, October 5, 2009

Too many exclamation points.

The last two blog titles (OK, like Mike Smith of The Principal's Page Blog, I misuse the term. A blog is the whole thing; this is a "post," or an "entry." I don't care. I'm calling this a blog). My last two blog titles end with exclamation points. I don't like to think of myself as that excitable of a guy.

Positive, OK. But, I always cringe when I see extraneous exclamation points in others' writing. Exclamation points belong at the end of sentences like, "Ouch!"

Multiple exclamation points don't belong anywhere!!! (I don't think I ever did that before. Alright, it was kind of fun. Fun!!! Huh?!? Holy punctuation, Batman!!!!)

So in the future I will try to control myself, and limit exclamation points to true exclamations.

I have found, that as we adjust to our lives in Morocco, each member of our family is more apt to "exclaim" than we were before. It is simply the nature of things here.

Maybe that explains it.
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