By Houston's account, Aristophanes' system of dots was abandoned, never having been more than a method of marking pauses, before being resurrected by Christians in the 6th Century: As it spread across Europe, Christianity embraced writing and rejuvenated punctuation.
The early Christian punctuation was, however, confined to Having traced these origins, however, Houston glances over any individual account of the exclamation point: This, then, was the state of punctuation at the height of the Renaissance: a mixture of ancient Greek dots; colons, question marks, and other marks descended from medieval symbols; and a few latecomers such as the slash and dash.
Improve this answer. Thank you for this wonderful answer! To both laugh and learn is a real pleasure. It's great to see Isidore of Seville cited by someone other than Thomas Aquinas. Add a comment. Nice work! I tried to fine a folio of the work; not able to yet. I managed to find an image that includes part of the manuscript. It also offers an explanation for the formation of the exclamation mark.
See above : — shaunxer. There's a typo just above the image, "iamge". Silverfish That's what edits are for, as longs as you find enough chars to edit. Pierre it wasn't enough and I couldn't see anything else to change! I know some people add a few space characters at the end of a paragraph to circumvent the limit but that seemed to be gaming the system to me!
I tried to translate the French wikipedia article : The origin of exclamation mark is uncertain. Another theory states that it finds its origine in musical notation. Graffito Graffito Wow, much more helpful than the English! Thank you!
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Linked The very form of an exclamation mark instantly attracts attention and suggests many things at once! But did you know that one of the most used marks now, the exclamation mark was once gasping for the breath, towering figures of English language found it hard to name it and the common populace would leave no stone unturned to humiliate this marl with a variety of funny, even vulgar names?
Let us go through the exciting history of the exclamation mark! One of the most respected languages of the ancient era was Latin.
It was considered as a sacred language. In fact, a huge number of old religious texts, scriptures and historical records were written in the Latin language because of its classical character and traditional appeal.
There was a particular word in Latin for expressing joy: Io. It is from this quaint style of writing Io, the sign of excited exclamation, that the modern exclamation mark was derived that followed each word expressing exclamation like Wow! However, it took around 40 years to use it as an exclamation note. It was somewhere during the fifth decade of the s that exclamation mark was employed to decorate the literary works. But the general public was still apprehensive of using this mark and it took more than a complete century and a half!
The exclamation mark had to struggle a bit to get a decent, dedicated and standard name. People find it difficult to give this strange-looking bell-like mark a proper name. Keep reading to learn more about when to use exclamation marks in your writing. Exclamation marks, also known as exclamation points, were originally called the "note of admiration. Exclamation marks can express the following emotions in writing:. Any exclamatory sentence can be properly followed by an exclamation mark to add emphasis.
After all, doesn't "I am excited! If you use exclamation points sparingly throughout your paragraphs, they can bring a touch of excitement or emotion to your writing. Here are some more example sentences that use exclamation marks. Notice that some sentences have exclamation marks after an interjection but a period after the next sentence.
This makes the interjection pop in your writing. When used in a quote, exclamation marks should be inside the quotation marks, just like all punctuation. In formal writing , you include one exclamation mark at the end of a sentence. Turns out, no one really knows the history of the punctuation mark. The current running theory is that it comes from Latin. In Latin, the exclamation of joy was io, where the i was written above the o.
And, since all their letters were written as capitals, an I with an o below it looks a lot like an exclamation point. Before that, you had to type a period, and then use the backspace to go back and stick an apostrophe above it.
Hence the interobang?!
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