Email etiquette!

…and not just for women:

The comments are interesting and insightful, for example:

"I'm using an exclamation point so you know I'm friendly and excited! But now I'm using a period so that you know I'm not crazy. Here's another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!"

The fuss about aggressive periods has died down over the past decade:

"The new semiotics of punctuation", 11/7/2012 "Aggressive periods and the popularity of linguistics", 11/26/2013 "Generational punctuation differences again", 8/1/2014 "Query: Punctuation in personal digital media", 2/23/2015 "Anticipatory confirmation", 10/7/2015 "Portentous periods", 2/12/2019

But ending phrases with nothing, or with commas, also has (or has acquired) a negative vibe.

There's something interesting to be said about the prosody of her "hi Dave" performances — comparing e.g.

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and

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…but that's a topic for another post.