A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#2What can this do that emojis can't?
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#3What can this do that emojis can't?
:thinking:
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#4Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#5Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
Would exclamation or question marks be intuitive if we'd never seen them before? Not that I think we should be adding more punctuation, but I don't know that we use '?' to question because it naturally looks like it's questioning something.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#6Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
They're not real. It's a joke.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#7What can this do that emojis can't?
I can't think of a corresponding emoji for many of these, like sarcasm, certitude, snark (maybe the one with its tongue sticking out?), doubt, irony, etc.
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#10Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
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