Exclamation marks

[mixed_biscuits]

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[version]

Enthusiasm is embarrassing. You never want to betray excitement or urgency or anything like that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

There was a piece in the Guardian a few years ago about how women are more likely to use them in a work email than men are, therefore they're good and we should all do it a lot more!!!

 

[version]

The Guardian!

 

[Mr. Tea]

I know, right!!!

Exclamation marks! Are a good thing! And we should embrace them! | Arwa Mahdawi

Much has been written on whether women should cut down on exclamation marks in the office. Sorry, but the answer is no!

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

It's depressing that you probably get paid more working for The Guardian and writing stuff like that than you do working for the NHS during a pandemic.

 

[WashYourHands]

I’m not saying female colleagues use them a lot, but a lot of female colleagues use them.
Thanks!!!

 

[Mr. Tea]

Innit tho.

 

[Mr. Tea]

"The Week in Patriarchy"

 

[version]

The more I think about this, the more insane it seems that someone with a public platform with a major newspaper chooses to dedicate an article to exclamation marks in work emails. There's millions, if not billions, in public money currently being looted and this is where their attention goes?

 

[sus]

It's because women have social skills and constantly try to smooth over tones and men are just autistic and put it out there for you to deal with

 

[sus]

To be clear, I consider myself in the pro-autism camp

 

[luka]

90% of dissensus are 'spectrumy' to use Limburgers term. I thought you were in that camp after what you wrote on the Borges thread.

 

[linebaugh]

I've never had male relationships that just put things out there. Always my female friends who had no problem telling with whom and what they have a problem with. Maybe why I'm not ready to dismiss the exlamation mark.

 

[sus]

90% of dissensus are 'spectrumy' to use Limburgers term. I thought you were in that camp after what you wrote on the Borges thread.

I had nothing else interesting to say but I'm interested in how concepts evolve, how we convert the raw nebulous world into a lossy taxonomy without even realizing it.

 

[boxedjoy]

The more I think about this, the more insane it seems that someone with a public platform with a major newspaper chooses to dedicate an article to exclamation marks in work emails. There's millions, if not billions, in public money currently being looted and this is where their attention goes?

to be fair, the commision is probably "do something light-hearted to offset everything else we are supposed to be covering"

 

[shiels]

I had nothing else interesting to say but I'm interested in how concepts evolve, how we convert the raw nebulous world into a lossy taxonomy without even realizing it.

lossy. I like that, computer stuff. Incomplete modelling

 

[luka]

lossy. I like that, computer stuff. Incomplete modelling

These metaphors have really taken hold, spread through people who work in tech and gamers. They're absolutely everywhere now.

 

[Mr. Tea]

 

[yyaldrin]

i use them a lot when sending messages, it shows enthusiasm.