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Much punctuation evolved organically from scribal shorthand. On the internet, I can see a contraction of /s into a symbol being one of the likeliest candidates for turning into punctuation.
None of the internet's fads or memes deserve to be preserved in punctuation rules. This is a joke.
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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.
But, as noted in the wikipedia articles, some feel that explicitly indicating when text is meant ironically defeats its purpose; irony is supposed to make you think.
1: The 'Het ironieteken van de CPNB' one the right: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironieteken
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All the examples of question comma on the site can easily be written as two sentences though.
And most sentences with a semi-colon could also; it's often a matter of personal preference without well-defined fixed rules.
Well, yeah, since the difference between a comma and a semi-colon is the latter joins independent clauses, it is necessarily the case that any semi-colon use for joining (as opposed to its use in, e.g., lists) can be replaced by a period, you just lose the indication that the two independent clauses are tightly associated.
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?
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.
most of those marks only have any cause to exist at all because people are so stuffy about punctuation, unless you wrote "The Dispossessed."
I've seen these "non-standard" ones in practice: ?! - Shock and confusion "Apple did what?!" /s - Sarcasm "wow, I'm happy /s" (?) - Doubt "I think Mark said we was done (?)"
even though it drives me crazy, it shows that special punctuation is unnecessary. people can just keep doing that awful thing, and there's no real ambiguity.
Proposals for an irony punctuation sign have been around since late nineteenth century. Stylistically, I prefer this relatively recent Dutch proposal¹. But, as noted in the wikipedia articles, some feel that explicitly indicating when text is meant ironically defeats its purpose; irony is supposed to make you think. 1: The 'Het ironieteken van de CPNB' one the right: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironieteken
Is that, in itself, irony?
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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They're using SVG
They have purposely disabled being able to select text (outside of the SVG graphics) by literally doing this in CSS: * { user-select: none; } The user-select: none; is intended for places where interaction with an element (e.g., drag and drop, clicking, sliding) is required and text selection should not occur. You might use it discretely on a HTML button. Blanket banning of text selection is a habit I've seen with de…
The download link just a font that uses the Unicode Private Use Area to display each of these glyphs, which is particularly disappointing for interrobang which I know has an entry at U+203D, but I'm not sure about the rest of them?