The consensus was that the single exclamation mark seemed most genuine. There were cultural differences, with some groups feeling that the double or triple exclamation marks showed more ...

“The exclamation mark appeared only in the end of the 14th century and was invented by an Italian monk who used it approximately as we use it, though he called it a sign of admiration — so, ...

Mark Twain cautioned against their whooping perfidy in his 1895 essay “How To Tell A Story”, as did F. Scott Fitzgerald, who said that using an exclamation mark is like “laughing at your own ...

The exclamation point encodes feelings — and it doesn’t apologize for doing so. In fact, since its first known appearance, in the 1340s, ! has been praised for capturing the emotion of the ...