How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In originally appeared on Parade. Writing an email might seem like common sense—just type out what you want to say and hit ...

For years, I resisted the exclamation point. In emails, I typed “Hi”; not “Hi!” “8:30”; not “8:30!” And “Disregard previous email. I found a large binder clip”; not “Disregard previous email!! I found ...

It sounded like an impossible task: replace my usual “Thanks so much!,” “What a great question!,” and “Have a wonderful weekend!” with punctuation of a less cheery variety. Less sunshine-y and smiling ...

The words we use to express ourselves at work continue to evolve. And no channel is the repository of so many of our daily missives than email. To find out exactly what has changed about the way we ...

When Jon LaMantia, a Long Island-based business reporter, was in journalism school, his professor drilled one rule into his students: you get two exclamation points a year and no more. “So if you use ...

It was in my first office job that my habit of writing exclamation mark–ridden work emails first came to my attention. My supervisor noticed the pattern and gently asked me to tone it down. At first I ...

Why do I feel the need to sign off every work email like I’m an extroverted camp counselor who just crushed a six-pack of Red Bull? Whether it’s ending sentences with (one or many) exclamation points ...

Does that seem passive aggressive or even rude, even though you are ostensibly “happy” to hear from this person, as you’ve so explicitly written in your email? That’s probably because we’ve gotten so ...

This content is excerpted from the new 3rd Ed. of ‘A Practical Guide to Linux: Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming’, authored by Mark Sobell, ISBN 013308504X ...

Writing an email might seem like common sense—just type out what you want to say and hit send, right? But once your fingers hit the keyboard, things can get a little tricky. It’s not always the words ...