" "If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Ms. Sherwood advises in her guide, available a

" "If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Ms. Sherwood advises in her guide, available at www.webfoot.com, where she offers a vivid example: "Should I boost the power on the thrombo? "NO!!!! If you turn it up to eleven, you'll overheat the motors, and IT MIGHT EXPLODE!!"" Well, yes. If the consequences are fatal, an all-caps message is a good idea. But intensifiers only stay intense if they're used rarely -- if you're always fucking swearing, for example, you can't use swearing to express anyfuckingthing.