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People at work who use excessive punctuation

K1052

K1052

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I can probably comprehend your questions and comments without you using ?????????? and !!!!!!!!!!!!! or even ......... after every sentence.



 
I have a co-worker who never met a punctuation mark he didn't overuse. Recent example:

HEY EVERYONE!!!! Time to get your "picks" in for the NCAA!!! Who will be this year's "big winner"??? Games start on Thursday... your "ENTRY FORM" has to get to me by 11 A.M.!!! NO "late" entries are allowed. "Good Luck" to all!!!
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Originally posted by: kranky
I have a co-worker who never met a punctuation mark he didn't overuse. Recent example:

HEY EVERYONE!!!! Time to get your "picks" in for the NCAA!!! Who will be this year's "big winner"??? Games start on Thursday... your "ENTRY FORM" has to get to me by 11 A.M.!!! NO "late" entries are allowed. "Good Luck" to all!!!
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Wow....only thing that's missing,,, is commas....!!!???

-- EDIT --
FORGOT TO CAPS LOCK SOME WORDS!!!
 
Are they over 50 years old?
I notice this at my company as well.

They did not grow up using computers or email, and have no idea about email etiquette.
They still think it's neat that you can send a message to someone else without paying postage.
 
That's patently absurd; but for truly excessive punctuation, one needs look no further than the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century philosopher who never met a semicolon he didn't like; in fact, it's rumored Hobbes didn't learn about the existence of the period - a punctuation mark designed to terminate sentences - until mere moments before his death; a fitting end, when you think about it, if you bother to (which you probably shouldn't); indeed, Hobbesian prose is legendary not for its craft or ideas, but for the sheer length at which he wrote, with single sentences often taking up entire volumes of text, occasionally requiring sequels just to terminate a single thought; perhaps the overuse of punctuation in e-mails today is merely indicative of the power of the mind who penned them, a display of philisophical prowess the likes of which has not been experienced in centuries, a throwback to the Hobbesian display of wit long lacking in modern discourse.

Or maybe those people are just idiots.
 
A pen pal of mine ends every sentence with about a dozen commas. I have no idea why. She's actually a very good speaker, but her emails make no sense even if you remove the ridiculous puntuation.
 
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
That's patently absurd; but for truly excessive punctuation, one needs look no further than the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century philosopher who never met a semicolon he didn't like; in fact, it's rumored Hobbes didn't learn about the existence of the period - a punctuation mark designed to terminate sentences - until mere moments before his death; a fitting end, when you think about it, if you bother to (which you probably shouldn't); indeed, Hobbesian prose is legendary not for its craft or ideas, but for the sheer length at which he wrote, with single sentences often taking up entire volumes of text, occasionally requiring sequels just to terminate a single thought; perhaps the overuse of punctuation in e-mails today is merely indicative of the power of the mind who penned them, a display of philisophical prowess the likes of which has not been experienced in centuries, a throwback to the Hobbesian display of wit long lacking in modern discourse.

Or maybe those people are just idiots.
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that was actually interesting to read.
 
I completely agree, K1052.

Of course, then there are those that accuse me of over-using punctuation. I think that the folks that have never been introduced to the comma are far more annoying than those that overuse punctuation.
 
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