The Daily Whine

Read an email today. Very direct, straight to the point, terse even. And a lot of unnecessary punctuation.

The whole email consisted of three lines, which can be summised:

"What’re all the x & ys about???" and

"What are the other points about????"

Let’s just say I wish I had the presence of mind to reply:

"read properly lah!!??!!!" or

"don’t read properly how to understand???????"

Now, I appreciate short email; it’s something I’m consciously trying to work on myself. It’s the Indiscriminate use of punctuation marks that get to me.

Others I’ve seen:

• Where’s my ad??!
• What time are you coming?!!?
• This is unacceptable!!!
• You were late!!!!
• Who’s your daddy??? :)

I am not a big fan of multiple punctuation marks. Whenever I see an email with multiple punctuation marks, I always envision the sender sweating buckets and getting a stroke. An additional exclamation point or six doesn’t make me pay closer attention; it makes me want to go over there and slap the writer silly with a banana peel.

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