All this week Decider is celebrating the most polarizing punctuation in pop culture: the exclamation point! More spirited than a period and more decisive than a question mark, the exclamation ...

The exclamation point has fallen in and out of favor for good reason. Children are suckers for them: “I do not like green eggs and ham!” Journalists are taught to use them sparingly ...

Maybe you read an exclamation point as shouting when it was intended to be friendly. When it comes to texting, there can be plenty of tonal confusion, especially among people of different generations.

March 7. (Sue Ogrocki/AP) Like many Americans, I nurse an inveterate addiction to the exclamation point. Rare is the day when I am able to compose an email reply without a liberal sprinkling of ...