Tulsi Gabbard Running For President

[TomK]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

You are actually using a person's use of punctuation as some kind of ? What is your point in asking ??

Repetitive incorrect spelling, and either a lack of punctuation or excessive punctuation can make understanding the intent and meaning of the written word more difficult. Try as we may, when words and punctuation are scrambled, something likely will get lost in the transmission of the idea the writer intended to share with us.

Think of it this way. Incomplete or careless sentence structure is like the guy who walks into a party with his zipper down. He almost, but didn’t quite finish dressing properly. He begins talking with the group and may have something important to say, but if we’re distracted we’re not listening intently, more likely our minds wander and we wonder, “does he know his zipper is down? Should I tell him his zipper is down? Why did he use three exclamation points?

If the intent is to keep ‘em guessing, admittedly it’s a rather effective technique.

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I've quoted more than I usually do, but it's to make a point. HOTPE is right on the mark about not making the message clear when excessive punctuation is used, but there's another aspect to this. Multiple exclamation points are what you might expect from an overly-excited child. And when you see "!!!" it suggests the author really has no serious point to make but, instead, is resorting to emotion and over-enthusiasm in an attempt to cover up the fact they really haven't much substance to post nor do they have a serious argument.

It's about credibility, RWR.