On the Mark by Florence Hazratt review – A fascinating history of punctuation | literary criticism
hHow do you feel about exclamation marks? Otherwise known as gasps, howlers, dog cocks, or screams. In his Modern English usage, Fowler said that too much usage betrays an “uneducated or unpracticed writer”. Martin Amis called them “joke badges”, and Theodor Adorno called them “soundless cymbal-crashing”. Novelist Elmore Leonard specified that you’re only allowed two