英语词汇exclamation mark的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

! (exclamation mark). Like &, ! goes by a number of names. In America it’s usually called an exclamation mark or point, but the British call it, more simply, an exclamation, and some- time note or point of exclamation. Anyone using the older rhetorical terms ecphonesis (“the outcry”) or epiphonema for the grammatical interjection rates an ! of surprise, which is called a note of admiration, or, depending on your taste, a note of detestation. Shakespeare used the phrase note of ad- miration (!) effectively in The Winter’s Tale: “The changes I perceived in the King and Camillo were very Notes of admi- ration.” But sometimes writers slashed pages with scores of them following words and phrases intended to be uttered with an intonation of exclamation or surprise, leading Swift to write that a reader should skip over sentences with notes of admiration at the end. For that matter the exclamation has had few friends throughout history. Dr. Johnson defined it as “a note by which a pathetical sentence is marked thus!” While Spenser said, “The lowest form of language is the exclama- tion, by which an entire idea is vaguely conveyed through a single sound.” But the powerful points do have their uses in small doses—showing strong emotions or emphasizing com- mands or warnings. They seem to have been invented by the Italians and came into English use about four centuries ago. Tradition says that the mark derives from the Latin io (excla- mation of joy), written vertically as &phgr$, which became ! in time.

词汇	exclamation mark
词源	! (exclamation mark). Like &, ! goes by a number of names. In America it’s usually called an exclamation mark or point, but the British call it, more simply, an exclamation, and some- time note or point of exclamation. Anyone using the older rhetorical terms ecphonesis (“the outcry”) or epiphonema for the grammatical interjection rates an ! of surprise, which is called a note of admiration, or, depending on your taste, a note of detestation. Shakespeare used the phrase note of ad- miration (!) effectively in The Winter’s Tale: “The changes I perceived in the King and Camillo were very Notes of admi- ration.” But sometimes writers slashed pages with scores of them following words and phrases intended to be uttered with an intonation of exclamation or surprise, leading Swift to write that a reader should skip over sentences with notes of admiration at the end. For that matter the exclamation has had few friends throughout history. Dr. Johnson defined it as “a note by which a pathetical sentence is marked thus!” While Spenser said, “The lowest form of language is the exclama- tion, by which an entire idea is vaguely conveyed through a single sound.” But the powerful points do have their uses in small doses—showing strong emotions or emphasizing com- mands or warnings. They seem to have been invented by the Italians and came into English use about four centuries ago. Tradition says that the mark derives from the Latin io (excla- mation of joy), written vertically as &phgr$, which became ! in time.
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