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Post by arcblade on Nov 9, 2007 0:46:50 GMT -5
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Post by Fox on Nov 9, 2007 13:20:41 GMT -5
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That is just awesome. XD
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Post by Faith on Nov 11, 2007 1:54:47 GMT -5
Interrobang? *Laugh!!!*  Oh... I always Use "!?!?!" But that would be a bit easier... more convenient. Bring back? When was it a part of punctuation, and where was I? There's a group devoted to that? |
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Post by arcblade on Nov 11, 2007 9:42:11 GMT -5
it was popular around the 1960s. I'd say... you probably weren't born yet, ne?
There is indeed a Facebook group devoted to that.
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Post by Faith on Nov 13, 2007 1:05:34 GMT -5
No, no I wasn't.
If I was, I'd be at least 47 years old!
(Assuming I still possesed the same birthdate...)
The things people do...
Why'd they drop it?
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Post by arcblade on Nov 13, 2007 13:52:07 GMT -5
Check the Wiki. It never got into that many keyboards.
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Post by Faith on Nov 13, 2007 15:47:49 GMT -5
Heh. ;D
So you've taken apart keyboards, or something?
Or did I just read that wrong...
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Post by arcblade on Nov 13, 2007 17:50:05 GMT -5
Double post, but as I'm not a mod on this board, I guess I can't fix it. Oh darn.
No, you know how on keyboards there'll be buttons for different symbols, like the forward and backward slashes, and the dollar sign and carot and exclamation point and ampersand? Well, those are generally commonly used symbols, so they got places on the keyboard. The interrobang was never quite popular enough to be put into one of those spaces.
I guess despite it being popular with the populace, it never really clicked with the typewriter manufacturers.
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Post by Dragyn on Nov 13, 2007 23:42:35 GMT -5
Double-post fixed.
The interrobang, huh? Can't say I see much use for it, but then, it still looks cool.
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Post by arcblade on Nov 14, 2007 0:52:04 GMT -5
It's what you get if you combine ? and !. Makes for slightly less ink usage than !?!?!?!?!?!?!?. Just slightly less.
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Post by Faith on Nov 14, 2007 15:09:51 GMT -5
Heh. ;D Well, that' interesting. I want to take apart something... I want to take apart our broken gameboy, it's only been lying around my house for a year, anyway. But my sister runs around telling our parents to stop me 'cuz there's acid.  I've made an agreement... but I have to wear stupid stuff. |
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Post by Fox on Nov 14, 2007 15:29:40 GMT -5
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We need an interrinroy mark. =D
No idea why I said that. Maybe I'll start bringing notice to all these nifty marks when I ever get around to starting my comic again. ^_^
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Post by bloodreaper on Dec 7, 2007 6:29:16 GMT -5
The principal value of the interrobang is that it looks more professional and correct than putting two different full stops on the end of one sentence. Unfortunately, it isn't easily differentiated from either of it's parents and lacks the impact of the !?, which is more often used in comics and advertisements, anyway and as such doen't need to look correct.
All told, I can't see much argument for bringing it back, beyond on stenographic keyboards where it's going to save your overtaxed court stenographer precious keystrokes. Notably, the courtroom is probably the place where emphatic questions are most asked. Alas, court stenography is about recording what was said, not how.
However, the interrobang does have one crowning virtue: It allowed me to feel good that I knew it was a variant of exclamation point because of the word bang in the name--no description necessary. This is of course, only because of my studies of programming and internet history, rather than any understanding of typesetter culture, but I still feel good about knowing one more useless thing.
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Post by Dragyn on Dec 7, 2007 17:31:16 GMT -5
Ah, the joys of useless information<interrobang>
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Post by Faith on Dec 7, 2007 17:43:19 GMT -5
*laugh!!!* |
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