The joy of the double exclamation point

If there is any feeling to be found in the joyless brick of human knowledge that we call the smartphone, certainly, it lives in our punctuation.

On a rainy Monday morning, I found myself thinking, as I do, about writing ticks. I realized that in my Slacks, texts, and unedited articles, I had been relying on a form of punctuation to indicate I really, truly felt something: the double exclamation point. 

"Sorry!!" I write to my editor, after posting something in a public Slack channel I meant to send over DM. Read more...