tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post3801475297028883105..comments2024-03-21T18:41:05.522-04:00Comments on Brigid Brockway is Technically a Writer: Flame on!Brigid Daull Brockwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06808132338148865533noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-43982328006528320112010-06-02T14:18:16.735-04:002010-06-02T14:18:16.735-04:00Good old Mark Trail never engaged in multiple excl...Good old Mark Trail never engaged in multiple exclamation marks, but he totally undermined its impact by punctuating every non-question sentence as an exclamation. Oddly, all of these forcefully blurted sentences still failed to prevent Mark Trail from being utterly, utterly boring.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05490102537399222213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682036990627515116.post-30037470766535872912010-05-08T20:44:00.813-04:002010-05-08T20:44:00.813-04:00I feel the same about the "thanks!" thin...I feel the same about the "thanks!" thing and about exclamation marks in general. I even disdain them in contexts where they might be apprpriate. When I instant message someone I say, "boo" as in "Surprise!" but because I don't often include an exclamation mark I'm sure it could be read as, "You suck."<br><br>Honestly, because I'm so soft-spoken it hardly ever seems right to use an exclamation mark no matter how emphatic I might be feeling.<br><br>I suppose to get around the "thanks!" thing one could say, "Thanks a lot," or "many thanks." Although now that I'm looking at them one sounds sarcastic and the other out-dated. What a pain.saltyrosehttp://saltyrose.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com