Previous research findings have shown that exclamation marks make comments seem generally more positive. People also use them to make judgments about the sender's emotional state. Exclamation marks ...

If you really want to demonstrate your dislike for someone, end a sentence with a period. "Thanks so much." "That's great." "Happy birthday." As a line in an email, a text or a Facebook comment, any ...

It was in my first office job that my habit of writing exclamation mark–ridden work emails first came to my attention. My supervisor noticed the pattern and gently asked me to tone it down. At first I ...

The only literary work about punctuation I'm aware of is an odd early story by Anton Chekhov called "The Exclamation Mark." After getting into an argument with a colleague about punctuation, a school ...