"Soon, exclamation points will be extinct."
-Conversation with a friend
This conversation also took place after the poetry reading. I was waiting in line to get my book signed and my friends and I were talking about how in primary and elementary school, teachers lecture the signficance/purpose of exclamation points. However, in college, exclamation points are rarely used at all. Very few poems utilize the punctuation and students never really use exclamation points in their research papers either. About the only setting in which they hold some remote signficance is in fictional/non-fictional writing; but even then there occurrences are few (it is usually somewhat prominent in dialogue, but again very rare). So we were talking about how soon exclamation points will not even be referenced at all in schools and we may stop using them altogether...those poor little exclamation points!
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