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[heidi]

Interesting 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?

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[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

I use it in personal writing at times, but I would hesitate before using it in a newspaper article...

...and dadgummit, I used to have a Washington Post style guide that might have provided the answer, but it's gone. Hmmmm. Wonder where that walked off to.