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Perhaps the most provocative of punctuation marks, ! has long elicited the love and hate of writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald said exclamation marks are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. More recently, Donald Trump has become the doyenne of !, enlisting it as a tool in his divisive demagoguery.
Can the exclamation mark be rescued from its much-maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy?
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Dr Florence Hazrat, researcher, wordsmith, podcaster. Author of An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! Published in Australia by Allen & Unwin
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