Emoticons as punctuation

Ana I hope you weren't having a go at me there!!!????

I am so glad some of you are fallible too!

And isn't it annoying when you realise you've forgotten to close your brackets?
(I speak from experiencce...)

Oh Bags I really like the . after etc. It's very satisfying. (Should I have put two there as it was the end of the sentence? again.

Oh, quite, alison Each to their own as far as s and s, etc. go.

Now I want to remove the . after the etc because it seems superfluous even though I know it's correct.

Oh! how will I cope? The stress! The stress!



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^ superfluous full stop, sort of just in case.

I think it is OK eithe way. If you think it matters Bags put it in Pedants but then you would if you thought it did! !?!

Yes Bags Sometimes it just doesn't look right!

Yes - especially if it's a - it doesn't really need an exclamation mark, either. I still tend to put one in though..........(!)