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When you read posts or texts in your head, do you put emphasis on words that are capitalized or when the poster puts an exclamation point or a lot of exclamation points?

Asked by jca2 (16312points) 1 month ago

When you read posts or texts in your head, and someone puts an exclamation point or lots of exclamation points, or writes in caps (CAPS), do you read it the way it’s written, just to be funny?

For example, if someone says “If the party is tomorrow, I am NOT going!!!!” do you read it like that to amuse yourself? Or if they say “I am eager to build the deck but right now it’s going to be WAY WAY WAY too expensive” would you read it like that in your head?

Humor welcome.

I do read things the way they’re written, and it’s quite amusing.

I told a friend recently that I think there should be a punctuation mark that is somewhere between a period (.) and an exclamation point (!) because when we text, a period may sound dull but an exclamation point is not necessarily the way it sounds when we verbalize it.

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