Interrobang

Fun fact: according to Merriam-Webster, the word interrobang for “a punctuation mark designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question,” was coined a half-century ago.

Despite all the ensuing exclamatory rhetoric still awaiting proper punctuation, the mark has yet to catch on.

— Sue Burke
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Published on November 22, 2017 07:59
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message 1: by D J (new)

D J Rout Well, I have heard 'bang' to describe an exclamation mark, and I always used to like discussing factorials in maths because it was such a surprise that 720 is also 6! Wow factorial.

I do remember reading about its invention in a Readers' Digest snippet at the end of another sometime in the mid-70's but I don't remember them giving it a name. It also has no Unicode equivalent, so can I put one here(interrobang) No. Damn.


message 2: by Sue (new)

Sue Burke I vaguely remember learning about a "bang" in math class long long ago. Math has its fun moments.

Is there a Unicode for the interrobang‽ Yes:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unico...


message 3: by D J (new)

D J Rout Sinc 1993, too! Huh!


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