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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 8 Mar 2016

    Kids use too many exclamation points! UK Ed Dept wants to teach them how to use them! But they bungled the rules!!!http://goo.gl/vS7RZY 

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      1. Wylie Horn‏ @wyliehorn 10 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker Swimming Prohibited? No! Swimming Allowed. HT to the late, great, Groucho Marx. #UKEducationDept

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      1. lindsay skinner‏ @lindsayjskinner 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker The article is a little misleading though as the guidance is about the grammar of an exclamation as a sentence type - not the mark

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      1. Laura de Ruiter‏ @LEdeRuiter 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @realDonaldTrump also uses too many! And he is not even a kid anymore! Sad!

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      1. Loren Thacker‏ @ThackerX 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Really?!!!!!!!!!!

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      2. Robin Bergshoeff‏ @Studentech 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker there are rules? Nowadays kids barely speak English good. But tremendous words can have gigantic implications without exclamation.

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      3. Ricardo C.V‏ @cabal072002 9 Mar 2016
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        @Studentech @sapinker it happens in most http://languages.Technology , among others factors, is forcing languages to "evolve".

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      4. Robin Bergshoeff‏ @Studentech 9 Mar 2016
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        @cabal072002 @sapinker I would retort that language has no opinion on the matter, ha. Free will is a fickle mistress. I love language :3

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      1. Alex Weatherall‏ @A_Weatherall 13 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @Independent if only that were the case. The problem is exclamations not !s…https://teachingscienceinallweather.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/have-i-got-precision-for-you/ …

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      1. Sinclair‏ @ItsEdSinclair 11 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @Independent Exclamation marks. Not points. Period.

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      1. Anselm Bassano‏ @AnselmGBassano 10 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Just because the French have banned some archaic accents...

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      1. RevK®‏ @TheRealRevK 10 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Err, wel... What can I say. In the words of many... OMG!

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      1. BarryButler‏ @barryjbutler 10 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Just think. Teachers used to do this perfectly well.....Then an education dept underling had a whizzo idea. #IstillblameGove

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      1. Alan Renwick‏ @alrenwick66 10 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker England only - there is no UK edu dept

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      1. Milan R. Vuckovic‏ @Wuksh 9 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Well Adorno wanted to ban exclamation marks altogether... That's an easy instruction...

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      1. Mark‏ @mhidden 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Lets agree that ‘!! you're dead.’ is correct grammar. Ie !! = “bang bang”

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      1. polyman71‏ @polyman71 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker adults use too few!!!

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      1. Canadian in NZ‏ @NZ_dc 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Whatever!

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      1. Patrick Warren‏ @plwarre 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Keep the government's hands off my exclamation marks!!!

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      1. Andrew DiKaiomata‏ @Dikaiomata 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @Maria62640456 @Independent what is this! Can you believe this! Can't I just use exclamation marks how I want!

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      1. GeorgeM‏ @Strange_Wx 8 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker What's next?!? CAPITALIZATION??!

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