This book's first entry about the trade center attacks is filled with multiple exclamation points and words and phrases like "people are freaking out" and "superbizarre" and "super razor blade vibe everywhere".
I don't know what I expected him to say, but a few minutes later he wrote back with enormous excitement and enthusiasm, using multiple exclamation points and Internet abbreviations that, when spelled out, are unprintable here.
Pingpong!?'" At this point, multiple exclamation points and question marks have not made much headway in printed prose; they're still confined to the mode of ironic hyperbole pioneered by Tom Wolfe in the '60s.
When her mother announced, "You are opening for John Mayer," Ms. Solovay rubbed her eyes, looked confused, squealed and said, "No, I'm not!" and "Stop!" Her blog entries are bubbly with multiple exclamation points, all caps and smiley faces.
Unfortunately, while avoiding medical scams may seem as simple as steering clear of Web sites with flashing text and multiple exclamation points, there can be a lot more to it.
(Even in his more naturalistic plays, his punctuation tends to be absurdist: he is fond of exclamation points, and even more fond of multiple exclamation points followed by multiple question marks).
There is also a second set of title cards, printed in a plainer font, without multiple exclamation points, to indicate scenes that are still missing.
In the ninth book of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Eric, one of the characters insists that "Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind".
Perhaps then the use of multiple exclamation marks is not simply a sign that someone is wearing underpants on their head, but of deeply unmasculine insecurity about expressing one's thoughts.
In my view, a rapidly scrawled expression of joy with multiple exclamation marks tells a more informative story to any patent lawyer about the process of invention than any neatly highlighted understatement, assuming the basic facts are also included (and legible).
