I’m not familiar with the exclamation point notation, and I’m not sure where it originates, though of course I could infer it from context. “Any arguments that were novel to me” seems to achieve the same thing in a less jargony, more accessible way. Is there any reason to go with the “Nate!novel” form over that?
I will observe that
Feels to me better than
Or something similar, because it reminds the reader that the word ‘novel’ is a two-place word. I will be doing this in future.
I agree, except that by this point I had already forgotten the author was called Nate.
I’m not familiar with the exclamation point notation, and I’m not sure where it originates, though of course I could infer it from context. “Any arguments that were novel to me” seems to achieve the same thing in a less jargony, more accessible way. Is there any reason to go with the “Nate!novel” form over that?
It originates in fanfiction summaries, where authors have a limited number of characters to describe their characters.