People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
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The Importance of Punctuation in Language Reform
In Spanish and other languages you have the inverted exclamation point and question mark at the beginning of sentences. Even in languages where we technically wouldn't need punctuation to tell us what's going on, that's still useful. But even then it took a long time to be established and only in the 1850s or so people actually started to be using it.
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