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Interrobang

Created by -bailey-. Last Edited by lackadaisy. Tagged as: Ideas
Interrobang

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Seldom-used English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation mark. Invented by American advertising executive Martin K. Speckter in 1962. It never took off.

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-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Wikipedia article here for you curious sorts.

belacqua
belacqua posted over 6 years ago

A shame that it could never gain a foothold. Much more useful than the question comma and the exlamation comma

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Yes, the question and exclamation commas are slightly goofy… but ”?!” is a sentiment anyone can relate to. Plus it has the most wonderful name ever. “Interrobang” is crazy fun to say.

There are six of us now… do you suppose if we all start using it now, it’ll be enough to bring on an interrobang renaissance?

NimbleMarmoset
NimbleMarmoset posted over 6 years ago

How does one type it, though?

belacqua
belacqua posted over 6 years ago

The Wikipedia article -bailey- cited above has the info: on Windows it is ALT +8253. Arial Unicode for example has the glyph. Let’s get it started!

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

It’s typeable in some fonts… it might be possible to figure out a way to get it to show up in a browser, but unicode confuses me. Hmmmm.

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Oops, beat me to it!

NimbleMarmoset
NimbleMarmoset posted over 6 years ago

I can’t figure it out. :/

belacqua
belacqua posted over 6 years ago

Some experience: under Windows the ALT input method given in Wikepedia doesn’t seem to work with Word or OpenOffice as they seem to ignore that specific Unicode code point. But: the Wingdings-2 font contains four variants of the Interrobang that work in all documents. Browser display is just fine. Linux in all this regards: like Windows. The Wikipedia method of writing the Interrobang in HTML works and it works in Bestuff descriptions ;) See: ‽ No problem on the Mac of course; found 13 installed fonts that contain the glyph, input works perfectly, like any other special glyph. Good news for us LaTeX users: the standard textcomp package provides the glyph as \textinterrobang and it also provides the Gnaborretni as \textinterrobangdown which is good news for people writing Spanish.

NimbleMarmoset
NimbleMarmoset posted over 6 years ago

I’ve constructively used it once thus far. I am a tad proud. I look forward to more interrobang usage.

-bailey-
-bailey- posted over 6 years ago

Excellent! I for one find that whenever I use the interrobang, it makes my day better.

santjose
santjose posted over 6 years ago

?!

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

How exactly did you get the interrobang in that comment, belacqua?

(I'm using Windows XP, in case it matters) 

NimbleMarmoset
NimbleMarmoset posted over 5 years ago

put these together: & # 8253;

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

Test test#8253

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

Curses!

Test test&#8253 

belacqua
belacqua posted over 5 years ago

Seems that with the new comment editor a hack is needed, isn't it‽ After typing the aforementioned entity ‽ and sending the comment, it came out as the string for the entity, but after another edit it transformed into an interrobang :o

As rumour has it you should be able to type it directly in Windows  by  pressing the ALT key while typing 8253 on the numeric keypad (in case the browser support this).

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

 

(after pressing 8 2 5 3 while pressing the Alt key)

Hmm...is is just Firefox?