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A collection of non-standard punctuation marks

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Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks

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post #4

Try 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

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post #4

Try 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.

The interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.

Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not real. It's a joke.

The interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.

It's not real. The symbol might be attributed some meaning, but it's not real punctuation and definitely shouldn't be.
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