Monday, March 7, 2011

What the Hell Is an Interrobang?!

It's a symbol that combines the exclamation point and a question mark. Wikipedia has more details. When I was in elementary school, I used to use the combo quite often, and the strength of question-vs.-exclamation was based on the ratio of exclamation points to question marks. In other words:

"Why did you do that?!?" is more of a question than "Why did you do that?!!!!?"

This choice of punctuation was heavily discouraged by the time I reached sixth grade, and I never knew that the interrobang existed. Even if I used it, though, the teachers would have thought I'd made a mistake and created an statement with ambiguous import.

What does all this have to do with my blog?!?! I don't know.

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