It's usually used with an exclamation mark: ! It means...this/that is a good deal. Personally, I would like this construction to fall into complete disuse in English.

Here is the rule in American English: (different sources are consistent on this rule, and I suspect British English has the same rule.) When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the

Hi Chipper, and welcome to English Forums. Your replacement was fine, but I bet no one would have noticed the "the"s in the original. Unlike exclamation marks! Which tend to draw the reader's notice!! You could have recast the

I loved this review! +++ The weekend's TV London is flooded, the royals have fled - but don't worry, David Suchet is in charge Nancy Banks-Smith The Guardian, Monday May 5 2008 When you feel lazy, there is a lot to be said for tosh, and

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I note on usenet that there are two conventions about the positioning of punctuation ? ! : and ; The a majority post "is this correct?" While a significant minority post "is this correct ?" IMO this must be that this is a carry

"DE781" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag At least he didn't make us change the way we pronounce the vowels in"banana" (Br: "bahhhnarrrnarrr") in order to sound "more French" (WTF??), withthreats of

The conventional meaning of the slash is and/or i.e. it ... our words ignore (let alone condemn) groups within our community. Liebe Lehrer und -innen! Liebe Lehrer und Lehrerinnen!(...usw...) But when writing to a committee, there is a standard

We have waited long but not in vain: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/05/quartercolon.html "The International Grammar Standards Organization has approved the quartercolon for use starting in June of 2004. This is the first new punctuation mark