Do you think it would be nice to have a punctuation mark that's more enthusiastic than a period but indicates less excitement than an exclamation point?

Asked by jca (36062

) June 24th, 2017

With texts, emails and Facebook posts, I think it would be nice if there were something that indicated more enthusiasm than a period but yet less than an exclamation point.

For example, “We’re ready to attend Sarah’s wedding!”

“We’re excited for the summer to begin!”

“Thank you for having me to your dinner party. I had a great time!”

“I think I found the perfect shirt for my first day at work!”

“See you soon!”

To me, in real life we don’t usually sound jumping with joy when we speak, yet the exclamation point makes it sound that way. To just use a period would be a bit on the glum side, in my opinion. “I’m excited for summer to begin.” “We’re ready to attend Sarah’s wedding.” “I think I found the perfect shirt for my first day at work.”

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You make a very good and interesting point, @jca

It reminds me of the many times that I used a period, and it seemed too flat. So I changed it to an exclamation point, and that seemed WAY too much. We really DO need some kind of middle-ground symbol.

Something like this ++ Or maybe, this >>>

In any case, please consider me on board…..

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That would be nice.

I would also like to figure out how to bold or italacize a word, for emphasis on Facebook, rather than using quotation marks, which isn’t really correct, or calitalizing the word, which seems too aggressive. Is there a simple way to do that?

That’s why I love Fluther, because you can use the shortcut symbols to help you do that.

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