Post AY9Lb6CQ0CQZBePIhs by danyork@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AXKRJ1q729k4zvC2l6 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-07-03T20:42:09Z
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I'm interviewing Florence Hazrat tomorrow for the Grammar Girl podcast. She's the author of "An Admirable Point" — a fabulous book all about the exclamation point. What would you like me to ask her?
(DIR) Post #AXKRZB1OfAXs6nAgoy by multilingualchurch@theres.life
2023-07-03T20:45:07Z
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@grammargirl What's her opinion on the interrobang?What's her view on punctuation change in online writing, where it seems to mark prosody and sarcasm more than grammar?
(DIR) Post #AXKRtWzagYxW2e24DQ by cocoadog@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T20:48:38Z
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@grammargirl I don't have any suggestions, other than to point out that you'll save a lot of time, which you can use to ask more questions, if you use Victor Borge pronunciation.
(DIR) Post #AXKSyrq2hx2862ftT6 by mlanger@mastodon.world
2023-07-03T21:00:53Z
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@grammargirl Her thoughts on the interrobang.
(DIR) Post #AXKVmFOm6GgRGUauRM by danyork@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T21:04:49Z
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@grammargirl Oh, wow! Now I want to read that book! 😀Let’s see… you could ask her:- what’s her opinion on how many exclamation points should be on an average page of text in a book or report?- what about using multiple exclamation points?- what does she think about the interrobang combining exclamation points and question marks?- to that end, why is it an “exclamation point” but a “question mark”, when both have a point base? (Or is that an American English thing?)
(DIR) Post #AXKVmH6PlVBYY81H6G by danyork@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T21:11:00Z
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@grammargirl Continuing:- what are her thoughts on the inverted exclamation point ¡ used in Spanish? How did that come to be?- does her book go into how the exclamation point became called a “bang” in some contexts?(I ask as someone who remembers the “bang-path” addressing format we had in the pre-Internet days of UUCP where your address for email was literally something like “ucb!xyz12!mycomp!dan” )
(DIR) Post #AXKXtjewBpO73IqvPk by fratermus@vmst.io
2023-07-03T21:18:23Z
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@grammargirl I had a corporate client email me repeatedly and with increasing agitation about a sentence on a webpage that needed an "explanation mark". I kept asking questions -- did he want a footnote? endnote? parenthetical explanation? asterisk? What, for the love of all that is holy, is an explanation mark? What needed to be explained?Turns out he wanted an exclamation point at the end of the sentence.
(DIR) Post #AY7omuWwJaqJN3rlzM by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-07-27T16:26:11Z
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@danyork The interview is out now, and we answered a bunch of your questions. In particular, the answer to your question about the inverted exclamation point in Spanish is around the 7-minute mark.
(DIR) Post #AY7ouDoJ1wtnC6TXRw by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-07-27T16:27:29Z
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@multilingualchurch The interview is out now, and we answered both your questions. In particular, the question about how people use the exclamation point online to indicate prosody and sarcasm more than grammar is around the 5-minute mark. Florence thought it was an especially great question!
(DIR) Post #AY7rLuiToZWbzZ5Bbs by multilingualchurch@theres.life
2023-07-27T16:54:52Z
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@grammargirl Thank you! I'll need to have a listen.
(DIR) Post #AY9Lb6CQ0CQZBePIhs by danyork@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T10:08:30Z
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@grammargirl Oh, cool! I will go give it a listen.
(DIR) Post #AZMAcUYDtzGkHrXqts by danyork@mastodon.social
2023-09-02T12:28:52Z
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@grammargirl Finally got a chance to listen to the episode - very enjoyable and educational! Thanks for interviewing her!