Exclamation marks
06. Apr.. 2009 In categories:Style
Testbetrieb!!!Sicherheitsschalter für *IBN teilweise deaktiviert!!!
Maybe it’s just engineers who have this curious affection for exclamation marks. You don’t hear engineers speaking with this sort of vehemence. It’s as if they doubt that you will believe them in writing and that by adding more exclamation marks it increases their credibility. Maybe it’s just my British tendency to understate things.
Whatever it is, I delete almost all exclamation marks.
(*IBN is this particular engineer’s shorthand for Inbetriebnahme)
Maybe it’s just engineers who have this curious affection for exclamation marks. You don’t hear engineers speaking with this sort of vehemence. It’s as if they doubt that you will believe them in writing and that by adding more exclamation marks it increases their credibility. Maybe it’s just my British tendency to understate things.
Whatever it is, I delete almost all exclamation marks.
(*IBN is this particular engineer’s shorthand for Inbetriebnahme)
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