Banghorrea

[Jan Rosser]

Interesting article on BBC website today - I've never heard of the word but apparently banghorrea means "over use of exclamation marks".

Are you guilty of excessive use of - I certainly use them a lot as I think they emphasise a point or make a funny response funnier if you know what I mean (I wonder if there is a word for over use of smilies)

[david63]

Shock!!!!! Horror!!!!!!

Not me in 100 years!!!!!!!

[jay-ell71]

Yes I do it all the time!!!!!!!

[Quizzical Bob]

Shouldn't it be spelt

banghorrea!

[Meg 50]

Shouldn't it be spelt

banghorrea!

took me ages to work out what you meant(!), but you're right!

it did oughter be spelt banghorrea! or possibly even banghorrea!!!

[Quizzical Bob]

Shouldn't it be spelt

banghorrea!

took me ages to work out what you meant(!), but you're right!

it did oughter be spelt banghorrea! or possibly even banghorrea!!!

They would be the plural and superlative forms.

[Romig1]

I wonder if there's a term for the overuse of question marks????????

[suespud]

Guilty !!!!!!!!

[qbman1]

Guilty as charged too !!!

[The Monocled Mutineer]

I have to type-up hand-written 'Letters to the Editor' from serial obsessives who write to the local newsppaer every week on scrap paper, in red ink with dreadful handwriting and illogical thought processes amd a common feature is over-use of explanation marks, over use of single quotes around words or phrases, a full stop after an exclamation mark or a question mark, sentences that are questions with no question mark, underlining words, Incorrect use of uppercase other than for the opening word of a sentence or a proper noun, and over use of commas.

Then there are the ones that are devoid of any punctuation ...

I've even had some that bemoan the apparent lack of education and knowledge of the young, written in this style!

[Dancing Queen]

All the time !!!!!

[oldbluefox]

I use them all the time and once I get hold of some of TMM's explanation marks I'll be using those as well!!!!!! And unlike David's smilies you can use more than six of them!!

[Andrea S]

Smileys don't work on my phone so I am guilty.!!!!!!! Should they??!??!

[Not so ancient mariner]

Interesting article on BBC website today - I've never heard of the word but apparently banghorrea means "over use of exclamation marks".
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..........and there was me thinking it was a malaise that is endemic in certain towns in North Wales, and Northern Ireland.

[Dark Knight]

thought it was similar to Dehli Belly !!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boris+]

I sometimes receive communications from someone who will insist on pretending to be French - despite the fact that the person in question is English born and bred.

This person always starts a communication with 'Hallo (name)!' - instead of 'Hi (name),' or 'Dear (name),'; with an comma correctly placed after the name.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the correct punctuation mark to insert immediately after 'Sir'' 'Madam' or a name was a comma; most certainly not an exclamation mark. This person drives me nuts with this pretence of being French, and using an exclamation mark as described is (I believe) something which is (or used to be) done in France.

Oh well, I'll have to suffer it - but this particular person has a relative who pretends to be German!!!



Em

[Kendhni]

(I wonder if there is a word for over use of smilies)

Not on this site ... you are limited to the number you can use

[The Monocled Mutineer]

There is a word for not being able to use the five or six lines for my signature.

It is called 'censorship'

[Kendhni]

There is a word for not being able to use the five or six lines for my signature.

It is called 'censorship'

No Derek, it is called common sense and something that we have been asked for by the members of this site ... to stop bloated signatures, elongated 'where have I cruised lists' and those awful 'tickers' from appearing in signatures .. all of which make the site less readable. That basic rule was set very early on and has been applied equally to all members.

[Silver_Shiney]

I sometimes receive communications from someone who will insist on pretending to be French - despite the fact that the person in question is English born and bred.

This person always starts a communication with 'Hallo (name)!' - instead of 'Hi (name),' or 'Dear (name),'; with an comma correctly placed after the name.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the correct punctuation mark to insert immediately after 'Sir'' 'Madam' or a name was a comma; most certainly not an exclamation mark. This person drives me nuts with this pretence of being French, and using an exclamation mark as described is (I believe) something which is (or used to be) done in France.

Oh well, I'll have to suffer it - but this particular person has a relative who pretends to be German!!!



Em

I was taught, during secretarial school, that you don't use a comma after the salutation, you don't use periods in acronyms (which, unfortunately, is why "G.A.Y." is now "gay", which is supposed to mean carefree and happy) as it doubles the number of keystrokes, you use two spaces after periods, colons, exclamation and question marks, but only one after commas and semi-colons.

[Quizzical Bob]

I sometimes receive communications from someone who will insist on pretending to be French - despite the fact that the person in question is English born and bred.

This person always starts a communication with 'Hallo (name)!' - instead of 'Hi (name),' or 'Dear (name),'; with an comma correctly placed after the name.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the correct punctuation mark to insert immediately after 'Sir'' 'Madam' or a name was a comma; most certainly not an exclamation mark. This person drives me nuts with this pretence of being French, and using an exclamation mark as described is (I believe) something which is (or used to be) done in France.

Oh well, I'll have to suffer it - but this particular person has a relative who pretends to be German!!!



Em

I was taught, during secretarial school, that you don't use a comma after the salutation, you don't use periods in acronyms (which, unfortunately, is why "G.A.Y." is now "gay", which is supposed to mean carefree and happy) as it doubles the number of keystrokes, you use two spaces after periods, colons, exclamation and question marks, but only one after commas and semi-colons.

What does (did?) G.A.Y stand for?

[Silver_Shiney]

I sometimes receive communications from someone who will insist on pretending to be French - despite the fact that the person in question is English born and bred.

This person always starts a communication with 'Hallo (name)!' - instead of 'Hi (name),' or 'Dear (name),'; with an comma correctly placed after the name.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the correct punctuation mark to insert immediately after 'Sir'' 'Madam' or a name was a comma; most certainly not an exclamation mark. This person drives me nuts with this pretence of being French, and using an exclamation mark as described is (I believe) something which is (or used to be) done in France.

Oh well, I'll have to suffer it - but this particular person has a relative who pretends to be German!!!



Em

I was taught, during secretarial school, that you don't use a comma after the salutation, you don't use periods in acronyms (which, unfortunately, is why "G.A.Y." is now "gay", which is supposed to mean carefree and happy) as it doubles the number of keystrokes, you use two spaces after periods, colons, exclamation and question marks, but only one after commas and semi-colons.

What does (did?) G.A.Y stand for?

Good As You.

[The Monocled Mutineer]

Ken:

Only the 50 character limit was 'hard-wired'

My signature including intervening spaces was 17 characters. I concede it was six lines and I would have been happy to close up the

\__/ ..... etc

Content edited

Yours sincerely

[oldbluefox]

'2. Signatures

a. Signatures may contain up to three lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) comprising of a maximum of 50 characters'.

I think that is quite clear TMM.

[Meg 50]

...... and once I get hold of some of TMM's explanation marks I'll be using those as well!!!!!! ............

save some for me please!