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Jan. 6th, 2003 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiInteresting article about being twelve, in the Washington Post.
The article includes the following paragraph:
There's a dance floor with DJ, video screen and smoke machine(!), a pool table, snack machines and a TV room, which this night is tuned to the Fiesta Bowl game between Ohio State and Miami.
The (!) is in the article itself - I didn't add it. Is that netspeak? Old style journalism? Is it grammatically correct?
The article includes the following paragraph:
There's a dance floor with DJ, video screen and smoke machine(!), a pool table, snack machines and a TV room, which this night is tuned to the Fiesta Bowl game between Ohio State and Miami.
The (!) is in the article itself - I didn't add it. Is that netspeak? Old style journalism? Is it grammatically correct?
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Date: 2003-01-06 03:35 am (UTC)I don't know in English, but in French it's part of the possible things to write, and has been in a good long while, journalistically at least. it's a gimmick I think I've seen in texts old a century, I'd say. So by my standards it would be correct - albeit in another language *g*