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...simple dialogue we rarely need it. But because the practice of using exclamation points in casual e-mail and text conversations has become so common, now, not adding this punctuation mark to the end of a message makes it seem sullen and ungrateful. Simply ending with “thanks?? no longer cuts it, although in most cases such an ending would most accurately describe our emotion; we rarely scream the word “thanks?? when an act being rewarded is less-than-heroic. The misuse of this punctuation mark has spiraled even beyond...
...balanced diet, watch our saturated fat intake, our sugar intake, and plenty of other intakes I don’t know enough about to name. Poles, on the other hand, see balance in terms of possibilities, not limits. This a country where “no thanks?? really means “I’ll take two.” Trying the black forest cake but not the lemon torte—now where’s the balance in that? Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned that bread smeared with spiced lard...
...doesn’t really make you feel better about those four years in second place, does it?). More to the point, it’s those same benefits that have motivated many a high school student to send the little “Thanks, but no thanks?? postcard Mr. McGinn mentions to the Harvard admissions office. We have a name for those wise young souls: Princeton Tigers...
...didn’t quite know what to say. “Oh, thanks??I see.” I flashed her a sheepish smile. “You play with these things...
...worm’s e-mails could even be endearing, in their way. It warmed my heart to receive an utterly unprompted flood of notes from administrators of the Divinity School expressing their “Re: RE: Re: Thanks?? and Harvard minsters inquiring my opinion of “FWD: Re: That Movie! (fwd),” even if the messages themselves were brief. When it wasn’t Harvard officials brightening my day in Pine, I discovered a slew of messages from people as far away as Germany—and who doesn?...
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