Sometimes it’s too much! But the exclamation point has a point. A history — and defense — of emphatic punctuation March 17, 2023 More than 2 years ago 7 min Summary ...

First came Florence Hazrat, a literary researcher who authored the forthcoming book, “ An Admirable Point: A Brief History of The Exclamation Mark,” followed by Lan Samantha Chang, director of ...

I reserved the most scrutiny for my use of that ubiquitous, love-it-or-loathe-it punctuation mark: the exclamation point. Too many, and the writer may come off as vacuous and/or unhinged.