Gawker's Abuse Of The Exclamation Point!
Have you noticed how many times writer's at Gawker use exclamation points?! No?! Well, Nick Denton needs to really reign those guys in! On Sunday I counted 33 on the frontpage! Today it is a little better with 20! Nevertheless, it is starting to read like UsWeekly or Teen People!
I suppose the writers are trying to be clever, but clever it's not! It becomes incredibly predictable when for the thousandth time you read a normal sentence and the writer has slapped a "!" on the end of it!
Some examples of this "abuse" today if you will:
Well now there's a scandal about it!
So it looks like the market is right for handbooks right now!
Forks for everyone!
TV Guide, one of America's biggest magazines, was sold a few days ago. Now it's for sale again!
By doing things like reviewing YouTube videos!
There are Bedbugs In The Subway! Panic!
I might have to start keeping a log and chart this out. Could be an interesting study on writing techniques, or lack thereof.
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SINGLE threat
May 8, 2008
3:39pm
I am a BIG fan of the !!! I support Nick. I always turn in my articles for GofG with lots of sappy fun gushing !!!! and when the articles make it to print they have about 72% less ! than I originally provided
lengli
May 8, 2008
4:34pm
Whimsical punctuation? is like - taking over!!! So. Over. It.
the undergrad
May 8, 2008
4:44pm
The exclamation point is a key component to gawker's snark factory. without it, silly readers might take them seriously. It's a bit like wearing a power rangers or hair band tee that you bought full price from Urban Outfitters.
E.Shon
May 8, 2008
5:14pm
LOL!!!!!
model behavior
May 9, 2008
12:14am
Nick Denton is God. Just don't question it. !!! ;)
anbi
May 9, 2008
5:28pm
I didn't even notice until you pointed that out, but now that's all I can focus on. (While we're on the topic of punctuation: "writer's"? Ouch.)
The Hyphenate
May 10, 2008
6:52pm
I hate it enough when people do that in e-mails, now I'm going to think about this every time I read Gawker. Although I'm probably very guilty of free-form punctuation in my own posts (sorry, liberal arts English degree...)