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Re: Interrobang

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Post by lokedhs » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:03 AM UTC

computator wrote: post #40

> For thousands of years, in some written languages, there was no space between words. People were expected figure out sentences and clauses while reading aloud. Really?! Addingspacesbetweenwordsseemslikeanobviousthingtodo. According to Wikipedia, spaces weren't added because: (1) Free form of speech is so continuous, adding inaudible spaces to manuscripts would have been considered illogical. (2) At a time when ink…

Logical? Sure, most languages do separate words for this reason.

But languages are never completely logical. There are planty of writing systems where there are no breaks between words. Some of the ones I can think of includes Thai, Korean and Chinese.

Re: Interrobang

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Post by unhammer » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #86

My problem with the interrobang, besides the fact it's unnecessary ("?!" does just fine, the same way we don't need to replace "th" with "θ"), is that it's so damned ugly and hard to distinguish . The counter [1] -- the open space between the vertical bar and the question mark curve -- is just too cramped ("‽"), so it's aesthetically unbalanced at large sizes, and just looks like a question mark with an accidental sm…

Unlike the https://xefer.com/2008/03/interrocolon which actually would be useful

Re: Interrobang

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Post by foxyv » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

All I want is a way to end a sentence sarcastically. "/s" is fine but it would be neat if there were a character for it.