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...they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point may appear to just be a better representation of our own exuberance, the consequences of this trend include misrepresentations of our meanings and emotions...
Exclamation points are an important piece of our written language, and they are perfect when we want to describe something that we would say in a raised voice. Dickens used it quintessentially when the Ghost of Christmas Present bellows, “Come In! And know me better, man!” as did Orwell when he described the chanting of the sheep in “Animal Farm.” However, in simple dialogue we rarely need it. But because the practice of using exclamation points in casual e-mail and text conversations has become so common...
...Professor Robert A. Stickgold, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center! You just completed a study that found dreaming about a task helps you perform better on it. Now that reading period is upon us, do you think dreaming about our exams helps us get better grades...
...contacts, everything would be fine. Unfortunately, I have always been a die-hard contacts wearer, to the point where I have not updated my glasses prescription since I was 12. And while 12-year-old me didn’t have bad taste in frames, she did have better vision, and these lenses didn’t quite do the trick...
...about my struggles on the day of our big presentation, but instead they offered me reassurance and the opportunity to take a nap if I needed it. My blockmates stuck with me through a tediously long dinner, and brought me the one thing they knew would make me feel better the next night (’Noch’s, duh). And in case I had ignored my alarm, my ever-vigilant father spent the next two nights waking himself up to call...