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...responder really as excited about answering as 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...
Although using more exclamation points may not drastically affect us, it does provide an example of the growing body of ways in which we misrepresent our feelings through writing. How often does a response of “LOL” actually correspond to laughing out loud, or “OMG” to a legitimately shocking event? Taken together these phrases indicate a pattern of falsely self-representing oneself as being in a heightened emotional state. Perhaps overcompensation of emotion in these electronic messages stems from the lessening of actual human contact we experience over digital mediums...
...They may have been ranked among the, well, less desirable in FlyBy’s house reviews, but Winthrop certainly knows how to show some house spirit: for a third time consecutively—and 13th time since 1935—Winthrop has again claimed the Straus Cup, the House Intramural Program championship trophy...
...Straus Cup's announcement follows Eliot’s wins of three out of four of the men and women’s IM crew races on May 6, ceding only the women’s B race to Leverett. As a result, Eliot receives the Agassiz Cup, for victory in men’s A crew, and the Stone Plate for victory in women’s A crew...
Harvard University Dining Services has heard your pleas, and Korean BBQ will be back on the menu starting Tuesday, May 11 thanks to popular demand...