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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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An out of use punctuation mark.
I remember hearing about punctuation mark that existed for a short period of time which was a combination of a question mark and an exclamation mark. It was simply a question mark drawn on top of an exclamation mark. I can't find any information about it but I'd like to. Can anyone help me out?
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Hi,
Sometimes, in very informally writing casual dialogue, you'll see both used.
eg
Tom: I won 10 million dollars yesterday.
Fred: My ***, you won 10 million dollars?!
But I've never seen one on top of the other.
Clive
Sometimes, in very informally writing casual dialogue, you'll see both used.
eg
Tom: I won 10 million dollars yesterday.
Fred: My ***, you won 10 million dollars?!
But I've never seen one on top of the other.
Clive
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For informal writing, I use either ?!? or !?!, depending on whether I'm stressing the question or the exclamation. I've never seen one superimposed on the other one, either.
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What I want to know is how you knew the word for that, Khoff. [Y]
I'd never even heard of an interrobang before.
I'd never even heard of an interrobang before.
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Actually, I was just telling my daughter about it the other day -- and then here it turns up on English Forums! I really don't remember how or when I first heard of it, but I liked the concept, and the name, so I guess it stuck.
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