Maybe you read an exclamation point as shouting when it was intended to be friendly. When it comes to texting, there can be plenty of tonal confusion, especially among people of different generations.

The exclamation point encodes feelings — and it doesn’t apologize for doing so. In fact, since its first known appearance, in the 1340s, ! has been praised for capturing the emotion of the ...

So we have to get it right the first time.”Are you the hostile punctuator in your group chat or Slack channels??? We asked experts how to tell—and how to fix it.You use periods when you don’t have ...

We got the exclamation point from the British, along with all things verbal. Yet the British are at a loss as to how it entered their parlance in the first place.

So is italics: It's OK to use it to highlight important terms in quotes, or terms that you're trying to distinguish from each other in your arguments, but don't use it as an exclamation point. B.

Yet no need for an exclamation point because, presumably, you already get the point. Or, at least, Apple assumes that you do. Somehow, an exclamation point isn't necessary.

Your network is the main reason why you're seeing the red exclamation mark when sending an SMS through the Messages app. In this case, you can try to fix the network issue by turning Airplane Mode ...

Crescent Real Estate is hoping its two new residential towers will be the exclamation point on the Uptown neighborhood that’s grown around its landmark complex. The first— the 31-story 2811 ...

Exclamation points are no longer tough, they’ve been emasculated into sweet little blue birds delivering happy thoughts. I’m not the first, and certainly not the last, to speak up about ...

To fix the Yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager, you must ensure that the respective device drivers are installed on your system. Besides that, you can also update your device driver to the ...

We certainly have a tendency to distrust the use of too many. Even Florence, a fan, admits that a tweet from a politician or official containing multiple exclamation marks evokes a similar gut ...