Making a Point by David Crystal

Author:David Crystal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books

Among people, there is a US dance-punk band called !!! – pronounced (it would seem from their website) ‘Chk Chk Chk’ – a motif that continues in the title of their album THR!!!ER, released in 2013. Among individuals, pride of place has surely to go to the writer Elliot S! Maggin, known to enthusiasts of Superman, Batman, and other comics. Maggin recounts the story of his middle initial like this:

I got into the habit of putting exclamation marks at the end of sentences instead of periods because reproduction on pulp paper was so lousy. So once, by accident, when I signed a script I put the exclamation point after my ‘S’ because I was just used to going to that end of the typewriter at the time. And Julie [his editor, Julius Schwartz] saw it, and before he told me, he goes into the production room and issues a general order that any mention of Elliot Maggin’s name will be punctuated with an exclamation mark rather than a period from now on until eternity.

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