Sunday, 28 October 2018

Exclamation marks! Are a good thing! And we should embrace them! | Arwa Mahdawi

Much has been written on whether women should cut down on exclamation marks in the office. Sorry, but the answer is no!

Nikki Waller, a Wall Street Journal editor recently did something extremely brave and incredibly difficult. She went a month – an entire month! – without using exclamation marks in email. The point of this sadomasochistic experiment was to investigate why the perky punctuation mark has become such a ubiquitous part of office communication and why so many people, particularly women, are self-conscious about their exclamation mark habit.

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