Positive working relationships with co-workers and colleagues outside of your company are crucial to success in your job. They are also vital with customers and other professionals with whom you ...

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Six centuries after its invention, the humble ! peppers private messages and public announcements, provoking both joy and fury. Imagine getting worked up about a comma or a full stop!!! The ...

Are you a "serial exclamation pointer?" You can admit it if you are. (Really! You can!) You're certainly not alone. Plenty of us get trigger-happy when it comes to using exclamation points — ...

As we gathered punctuation favorites from a range of our favorite writers, novelists, and word-knowledgable people, we ran into a cold, hard fact. Some punctuation marks were hated, perhaps none more ...

In a world where written communication is a key part of everyday life, it is important to understand how your communication style may come across. All too often, people use emojis and extra ...

In this week’s episode of our Netflix show, Explained, we tackle the nuance of our most divisive sentence ender. Every day, people around the world struggle with a seemingly trivial decision: whether ...

The 45th President of the United States is a big fan of a particular type of punctuation – but what does this addiction really mean? Philip Cowell finds out. There is really only one rule when it ...

Many women love to use exclamation points, and it’s not because we’re all SPEAKING AT A LOUD VOLUME!!! According to the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, women use the exclamation point way ...