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I feel silly saying this, but I wish the author would use more periods and fewer exclamation marks.
by mjd 2y ago
I feel silly saying this, but I wish the author would use more periods and fewer exclamation marks.
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- tromp 2y agoElaine Benes would be proud of their writing...
- leetcrew 2y agoI was in the pool!
- gazchop 2y agoOh this is nothing. One of my colleagues does that and adds random colour changes, underlines and font face changes. It's like working with a serial killer.
- gota 2y agoMaybe he was a teenager on IRC in the late 90s or early 00s and decided to never change Thinking about it I guess MSN messenger and My Space also allowed/encouraged font shenanigans? My memory falters
- andrepd 2y agoAhh. I honestly miss that amount of self-expression, garish as it was. Or rather, I intensely dislike the mono-culture where every vertical video with one-word subtitles looks the same.
- amne 2y agoYou're the second commenter, so far, to mention exclamation marks. What do they mean to you that would bother you so much to point it out, or anyone for that matter? I haven't even noticed them until I read the comments here on hn.
- micaeked 2y agoNot gp, but I feel similarly. For me, I can't help read it with emphasis. As in, the voice in my head gets all fancy in an annoying way. If you imagine someone in person reading it out-loud with exaggerated emphasis, that's what it feels like. Same thing with comic books for me, the sprinkled bolded words in dialog are really grating.
- Etheryte 2y agoTo me it's fairly similar to someone making excessive use of CAPS LOCK. It can be used as a stylistic choice at times, but use it TOO MUCH and it just becomes DISTRACTING.
- Minor49er 2y agoI DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THIS EITHER! BUT I EMPATHIZE! I GET COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE SAYING THAT I'M SOMEHOW YELLING AT THEM ALL THE TIME BUT I'M ACTUALLY SITTING IN SILENCE, TYPING QUIETLY ON A MEMBRANE KEYBOARD! LOL???