tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post4512449111915628835..comments2024-03-14T10:31:26.918+00:00Comments on DCblog: On interrobanging onDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-21636984449089156482012-06-17T23:03:41.511+00:002012-06-17T23:03:41.511+00:00I always liked Terry Pratchett's take on multi...I always liked Terry Pratchett's take on multiple exclamation marks:<br /><br />http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Multiple_exclamation_marks<br /><br />I do think too many (more than say 2 or 3) is pretty deranged, but mostly people are using them in ironic fashion!!!!11111 Like!!!!1111 This!!!!111<br /><br />(the 1 is the fact you're so quickly writing it that you don't press the shift in time...from older computer geeks seen the same^^^^similar use of the up key, I'm assuming this was some terminal issue with the ability not to delete the word?Tim from Radio Clashhttp://www.radioclashblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-15832744736610961652012-05-21T10:23:36.101+00:002012-05-21T10:23:36.101+00:00Once, I received a ppt file including dozens of em...Once, I received a ppt file including dozens of emoticons as comments to some presentation statements. It was easy to translate, but for God's sake, we have right words to explain our feelings!Polish translator - Warsawhttp://www.linguisticatelier.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-36882995721649367662012-05-19T05:17:12.792+00:002012-05-19T05:17:12.792+00:00Yes of course - and other ways too, such as bold i...Yes of course - and other ways too, such as bold italic. My point was simply in response to the original correspondent, which was solely about using italics to show emphasis.DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-44177802578205650612012-05-18T20:20:01.351+00:002012-05-18T20:20:01.351+00:00Having been a typographer/graphic designer for 10 ...Having been a typographer/graphic designer for 10 years, I completely agree that putting a long sentence into italics is functionally different that using an interrobang or exclamation point. It conveys a very different feeling to the reader.<br /><br />However, I do want to point out that if a writer/editor/publisher chose to go that route, it does NOT preclude the possibility of emphasizing any particular word within the sentence: common typographic procedure calls for the emphasized word to simply revert back to the roman form. Here is what your sample sentence would look like:<br /><br /><i>Why on earth would John ever</i> want <i>to do such a thing?!</i>Morriss Parteehttp://blog.everythingcu.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-55386133751314291792012-05-18T11:09:12.589+00:002012-05-18T11:09:12.589+00:00I have so far edited two fiction books by differen...I have so far edited two fiction books by different authors where we have used the actual interbang punctuation mark ( ‽ ). It doesn't show well here - the best way to view it is in the Arial Unicode MS font at size 10 (this font and size is what we used in the books even though that wasn't the font of the rest of the manuscript which was in size 12). We decided to use this interbang mark because they originally had used the "?!".<br /><br />Lea Ellen {night owl in IL}Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589117302001625645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-28259107036200730622012-05-18T08:09:23.253+00:002012-05-18T08:09:23.253+00:00We need to be specific about what genre of writing...We need to be specific about what genre of writing we are discussing; Any prose, be it a novel or an article is by it's very nature more formal. To discuss e-mail or text messaging in comparison is simply not possible. you are trying to compare the written word with, what is essentially, dialogue. In a verbal discussion with another person, my inflection and expression come across. On paper they cannot. Hence "??!!**?!" (!)Tiggernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-55274301348772424332012-05-17T17:57:05.855+00:002012-05-17T17:57:05.855+00:00I'm a big fan of the ?! combination, however t...I'm a big fan of the ?! combination, however they ring a different meaning to me. I usually use it either to ask an obvious question, with the intent of expressing bring surprised but wanting some more info, like on facebook, as a reply to someone's status: "You left your job?!" and so on. In other cases the "!" acts almost like a silent" WTF?" rather than simple emphasis on the question as in "How could you do such a thing?!"sarahhttp://superslang.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-37112131832885284872012-05-17T16:01:39.760+00:002012-05-17T16:01:39.760+00:00My own use has been coloured by chess notation:
h...My own use has been coloured by chess notation:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation_%28chess%29Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-39418091950789894522012-05-17T13:08:48.301+00:002012-05-17T13:08:48.301+00:00David:
Robert Ludlum, the now-deceased writer of p...David:<br />Robert Ludlum, the now-deceased writer of popular novels of international intrigue and vast conspiracy theories, was a master of the italic sentence; so much so, that it became an expected part of his literary voice.<br />I don't hold with a Golden Mean for punctuation. It's changed according to fashion over the centuries. However, an excessive use of certain punctuation marks can be downright annoying. When they interfere with the flow of the narrative, when you slow down to say to yourself, "Oh, NO, not another exclamation point with a question mark?!- then I think it's time to say, "Hold! Enough!"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> IN PUNCTUATION MARKSWAS A MASTER OF THE ITALIC SENTENCEMarc Leavittnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-25047817596569200282012-05-17T13:03:30.904+00:002012-05-17T13:03:30.904+00:00I actually have an interrobang necklace, made out ...I actually have an interrobang necklace, made out of an old typewriter key. I always had a fondness for the combination, and the necklace made me look it up. Mr. Martin K. Speckter invented the combined symbol (as a single mark, rather than ?!) in 1962 and it was included on some typewriter makes in the 1960s. From his NY Times obituary:<br /><br />"The mark is said to be the typographical equivalent of a grimace or a shrug of the shoulders. It applied solely to the rhetorical, Mr. Speckter said, when a writer wished to convey incredulity."Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10943652027539441957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-28210108847849062252012-05-17T11:30:07.122+00:002012-05-17T11:30:07.122+00:00Some exclamatory punctuation strings include numbe...Some exclamatory punctuation strings include numbers, typically <i>1</i> or multiples thereof — as though to indicate excessive excitement, or in self-conscious, gently mocking reference to leetspeak. These numbers are sometimes spelled out, jocularly, as in: <i>OMG!!?!11!!ELEVENTY!!1!</i>Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03386875624025404452noreply@blogger.com