Email etiquette!
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…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.
and
…but that's a topic for another post.