I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
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A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#42The interrobang is in notable use; of the rest, the question/exclamation commas would be useful and so clear in intent that I'd adopt them immediately if they were widely supported (fonts and keyboards.)
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#43I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
I'd use a question comma, there are often times where I'll phrase a question and then expound on some deeper specifics - generally things that I would consider implied, but that many people would miss, leading to the misinterpretation of the question. Essentially everything (for me, at least) after the question comma is generally parenthetic in nature.
Are you sure you want to do that? You're going to break your legs.
Having thought a bit about it, I'd say it's the question version of a semi-colon.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#44I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
I'd use a question comma, there are often times where I'll phrase a question and then expound on some deeper specifics - generally things that I would consider implied, but that many people would miss, leading to the misinterpretation of the question. Essentially everything (for me, at least) after the question comma is generally parenthetic in nature.
All the examples of question comma on the site can easily be written as two sentences though.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#45I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
There is ‽ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang > this site doesn't let you copy text Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
They're using SVG
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#46I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
There is ‽ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang > this site doesn't let you copy text Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
It's a site where they are sharing a new idea that they want people to adopt..and so naturally they try and restrict the ability to copy and share it. Makes sense.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#47Like it or not, the "friendly period" punctuation already exists :)
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#48Try 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.
People have been proposing some of these for a long time (nearly 400 years)
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#49Like it or not, the "friendly period" punctuation already exists :)
And it was organically and democratically determined.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#50Like it or not, the "friendly period" punctuation already exists :)
Yeah that's definitely a musical symbol.