Philip Hart wrote: > I don't in fact use exclamation points. Perhaps they were > useful once, but when I see one now it's usually because of > poor writing, and in such matters bad drives out good (even I think you've gone a bit too far in eliminating them altogether, however my wife does tell stories of a grad school prof who explained to his students that they had a limited lifetime supply of exclamation points, and that using more than one or two of them in his course would drop their grade.