The oddest thing happened in the winter of 2023. Sylvie, 7, was writing a birthday email to her grandmother and wanted to place an exclamation point after “Happy Birthday, Grandma.” She held the shift ...
For years, I resisted the exclamation point. In emails, I typed “Hi”; not “Hi!” “8:30”; not “8:30!” And “Disregard previous email. I found a large binder clip”; not “Disregard previous email!! I found ...
LORD DUNSANY, in his shrewd paper on ‘Decay in the Language’ in the March Atlantic, has effectively reprimanded those modern writers who have forgotten their adjectival niceties. I should like, even ...
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