Tuesday 5th June 2007 - Exeter, England - A survey conducted by boffins at Exeter University has discovered that bloggers, on average, use 37% more exclamation marks in their writing than those who use other written forms!! Further, the Internet in general causes an increase of 19% in the use of the punctuation mark!!!
Professer Tim Hatton, who was the lead researcher on the project, said today that he was not surprised by the results!!!! "Anyone who has taken anything more than a cursory glance at the web cannot fail to notice that it is littered with surplus and totally redundant re-enforcement!!!!" "The exclamation mark is slowly losing its ability to mark out a title or passage as special or worthy of extra attention!!! As a result, we are entering an era where the only way to clearly emphasise the importance of a phrase or block of speech or make it stand out is to raise the stakes by adding more and more marks!!!!!!"
Over 4,000 blogs were examined, in addition to the 8,000 web-sites tested earlier in the year!!!!!
PA
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