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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.
People use it; it's real.
A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#52A couple of these reminded me of musical symbols I'd see on staffs and so they were already associated with something in my mind and couldn't be re-associated with whatever the authors wanted.
Aw hell, I'll just mark up my text with a bunch of musical punctuation. Throw pianos and fortes all over everything.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#53How can someone seriously propose I put a copyrighted symbol in my text to let them know it's sarcastic? [rhetorical question device] I'll bet the world will be a better place if they profit off every sarcastic sentence someone writes. [sarcastic sentence device] If you're too dumb to work out what's sarcastic, why should you benefit from my help? [friendly period]
(nb. There's a missing "sarcastic sentence device", but I don't know where to put it, when it applies to a piece of punctuation.)
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#54Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#55Try 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.
This is the same excuse I use to avoid learning Japanese. Just a bunch of unintuitive arbitrary characters!
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#56I 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?
iPhone auto replaces !? with interrobang.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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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
Right, the symbols are SVG but not rest of the text.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#58On a congruent note, California flops on compulsory English[1], the expressive void of the interwebs yawns at over a thousand emoji code points[2], and people actually think it's a great idea to champion patented punctuation marks[3] in everyday grammar. Can this guy[4] even spell his name yet?
[1] https://outline.com/Gea52v
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
[3] https://www.google.com/patents/USD608820
[4] https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#59This site design is beautiful---in static form. The animations are utterly unnecessary though and detract from the presentation as well as get repetitive when scrolling from item to item.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're using SVG
Right, the symbols are SVG but not rest of the text.
They're using SVG because support for these non-standard punctuation varies across browsers and OS's, so its safest to use an image.
Many sites presenting informational content about unicode content do the same, as they cannot presume the user will see the unicode symbols rendered natively in their browser.