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To: laney
Biggest pet peeve?

Ending exclamatory and/or interrogative sentences with multiple exclamation/question marks. (!!!!!!!!!~?????????) Hint: Only one is necessary in either case.


This is a ch__ch. What's missing?

35 posted on 01/12/2006 2:55:22 PM PST by rdb3 (What it is is what it was.)
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To: rdb3
Ending exclamatory and/or interrogative sentences with multiple exclamation/question marks.

**************

What????? Are you kidding???!!!

40 posted on 01/12/2006 2:56:56 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rdb3
Your kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right??????????

42 posted on 01/12/2006 2:57:57 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: rdb3

What about commas separating a compound predicate of only two parts, when not needed for dramatic pause?


48 posted on 01/12/2006 2:59:15 PM PST by firebrand
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To: rdb3
Ending exclamatory and/or interrogative sentences with multiple exclamation/question marks.

I HATE that!!!!!

84 posted on 01/12/2006 3:22:41 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (???)
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To: rdb3; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; PJ-Comix

And another thing--exaggeration!!! If I've said it once, I've said it a million times, people who exaggerate should be taken out and SHOT!!!!!


93 posted on 01/12/2006 3:26:49 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (And taglines, too. I am literally SICK of taglines!!!)
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To: rdb3
Only one is necessary in either case.

We have one well liked person on the CA threads who does it a lot. He got called on it by one of the kool aide drinkers. Now a bunch of us do it in support.

97 posted on 01/12/2006 3:28:12 PM PST by FOG724 (Governor Spendanator)
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To: rdb3

You've got to be kidding!!!!!!!1111!!!!!:)


108 posted on 01/12/2006 3:40:48 PM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Hey DUmmies, I'm a proud facist. Ann Coulter is much more attractive than Helen Thomas.)
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To: rdb3
LOL

Sorry...I find myself doing this and can't explain why
116 posted on 01/12/2006 4:07:49 PM PST by PaulaB (Now if you have a taste for this experience..And you’re flushed with your very first success)
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