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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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In a column published in today's New York Times, "Draft: The Point of Exclamation," Ben Yagoda observes that "in a time of exclamation inflation, it seems that a sentence without blingy punctuation comes across like a whisper."

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Posted by Steve Benton at 10:19 AM

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