By Yours sincerely, Exclamation marks

With regards to exclamation marks, surely the language used should denote the emotion. Only in reported speach should you need an exclamation mark to show that the words were expressed forcefully.

"To my mind there are onlt two rules to English usage: write what you mean in as short and clear a way as possible, and never use multiple exclamation marks at the end of a sentence. (In fact, never use exclamation marks, you probably don't need it.) " Dear Guest, The above statement is...

Yours faithfully/sincerely always strikes me as being the wrong way around. Surely you can only be faithful to someone you know. However, you can be sincere whether you know the person or not. I suppose it means that my letter is faithful to the truth, but that's not the predominant usage of...