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 (DIR) Post #AVkbcSqhtJqMnPRYtE by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-05-17T15:56:01Z
       
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       Putting in and taking out exclamation points in my email newsletter. I always include them and then end up taking them out when I'm proofing the final version. So I'm trying to learn from that and take them out earlier.#AmWriting
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkbnyMF5DilhggJX6 by bbsmooth@a11y.info
       2023-05-17T15:58:08Z
       
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       @grammargirl This you?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRLFWF2v_U
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkcHwxMrDPQ2sLCM4 by jimfl@hachyderm.io
       2023-05-17T16:03:33Z
       
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       @grammargirl If you leave them in, your prose can read like a Mark Trail comic strip! There’s no better way to convey unbridled enthusiasm! You know, for kids!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkcRkRqDbSC9AGbcu by colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art
       2023-05-17T16:05:18Z
       
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       @grammargirl What was that Oscar Wilde said about working very hard? In the morning he put in a comma, and in the afternoon, he took it out again?Don’t eliminate your hard work.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkcSbd0UosR58tltA by xahteiwi@mastodon.social
       2023-05-17T16:05:28Z
       
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       @grammargirl That's always a good idea. Except if you're writing about this:https://goo.gl/maps/ZKwYkPwtvSp1pLAx8
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkdEUarxAILAHjUG0 by pootriarch@sfba.social
       2023-05-17T16:14:07Z
       
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       @grammargirl there's something about editors writing and exclamation points!! i had an editor with an eagle eye who just loved! loved! them and like you, would have to go through and cut them down. but only when she was finished!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVke7AZK6hKwzB57Uu by royal@theres.life
       2023-05-17T16:24:00Z
       
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       @grammargirl But why!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVkhbiW0l6BKoqn3Ka by mediageek@mastodon.social
       2023-05-17T17:03:08Z
       
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       @grammargirl I once had to give a quota to someone working on a business newsletter with me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVlEiuTK02H4PsZNWy by colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art
       2023-05-17T23:14:14Z
       
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       @grammargirl While developing a style guide for a company, I made a rule that we should never use exclamation points for our own announcements. But we could use them for the what the customers do.No: We released version 2.0!Yes: You do amazing things!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVlLFgT1gndsGLRVGi by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-05-18T00:27:25Z
       
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       @colorblindcowboy Interesting approach. I like it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmamEZI8AbVlKJPdY by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
       2023-05-18T14:56:02Z
       
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       @grammargirl For the last book I wrote, the publisher's guideline was that I should use no more than five or six exclamation marks — in the entire book. It was a good discipline!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVnhUrfauHIietsvQG by JohnDA@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-05-19T03:46:02Z
       
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       @grammargirl yes, they often seem a bit twee outside informal emails, etc, similar to emojis! 😀