In this week’s Flash Tip, Alida addresses gratuitous punctuation and offers an easy solution to overusing !. Having trouble avoiding that Shift+1? Head over to Paypal and break your habit!

Wait, is that ! worth it? Is this contemporary, casual communication in which the ! stands in for enthusiasm? Hmm…you may never look at an ! the same way again.

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