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arcblade

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #75 on: November 08, 2007, 07:46:00 PM »

I am part of a group on Facebook to bring back the Interrobang.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
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Fox

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #76 on: November 09, 2007, 08:20:00 AM »

....

That is just awesome. XD
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Faith

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #77 on: November 10, 2007, 08:54:00 PM »

Interrobang?

*Laugh!!!*   :D
Oh... I always Use "!?!?!"
But that would be a bit easier... more convenient.

Bring back?
When was it a part of punctuation, and where was I?
There's a group devoted to that?
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arcblade

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #78 on: November 11, 2007, 04:42:00 AM »

it was popular around the 1960s.  I'd say... you probably weren't born yet, ne?  

There is indeed a Facebook group devoted to that.  
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Faith

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #79 on: November 12, 2007, 08:05:00 PM »

No, no I wasn't.
If I was, I'd be at least 47 years old!
(Assuming I still possesed the same birthdate...)

The things people do...

Why'd they drop it?
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arcblade

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #80 on: November 13, 2007, 08:52:00 AM »

Check the Wiki.  It never got into that many keyboards.  
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Faith

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #81 on: November 13, 2007, 10:47:00 AM »

Heh.   ;D
So you've taken apart keyboards, or something?
Or did I just read that wrong...
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arcblade

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #82 on: November 13, 2007, 12:50:00 PM »

Double post, but as I'm not a mod on this board, I guess I can't fix it.  Oh darn.  

No, you know how on keyboards there'll be buttons for different symbols, like the forward and backward slashes, and the dollar sign and carot and exclamation point and ampersand?  Well, those are generally commonly used symbols, so they got places on the keyboard.  The interrobang was never quite popular enough to be put into one of those spaces.  

I guess despite it being popular with the populace, it never really clicked with the typewriter manufacturers.  
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Dragyn

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #83 on: November 13, 2007, 06:42:00 PM »

Double-post fixed.

The interrobang, huh?  Can't say I see much use for it, but then, it still looks cool.
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arcblade

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #84 on: November 13, 2007, 07:52:00 PM »

It's what you get if you combine ? and !.  Makes for slightly less ink usage than !?!?!?!?!?!?!?.  Just slightly less.  
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Faith

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #85 on: November 14, 2007, 10:09:00 AM »

Heh.   ;D

Well, that' interesting.
I want to take apart something... I want to take apart our broken gameboy, it's only been lying around my house for a year, anyway. But my sister runs around telling our parents to stop me 'cuz there's acid.   :P
I've made an agreement... but I have to wear stupid stuff.


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Fox

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #86 on: November 14, 2007, 10:29:00 AM »

......

We need an interrinroy mark. =D

No idea why I said that. Maybe I'll start bringing notice to all these nifty marks when I ever get around to starting my comic again. ^_^
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bloodreaper

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #87 on: December 07, 2007, 01:29:00 AM »

The principal value of the interrobang is that it looks more professional and correct than putting two different full stops on the end of one sentence. Unfortunately, it isn't easily differentiated from either of it's parents and lacks the impact of the !?, which is more often used in comics and advertisements, anyway and as such doen't need to look correct.

All told, I can't see much argument for bringing it back, beyond on stenographic keyboards where it's going to save your overtaxed court stenographer precious keystrokes. Notably, the courtroom is probably the place where emphatic questions are most asked. Alas, court stenography is about recording what was said, not how.

However, the interrobang does have one crowning virtue: It allowed me to feel good that I knew it was a variant of exclamation point because of the word bang in the name--no description necessary. This is of course, only because of my studies of programming and internet history, rather than any understanding of typesetter culture, but I still feel good about knowing one more useless thing.
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Dragyn

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #88 on: December 07, 2007, 12:31:00 PM »

Ah, the joys of useless information<interrobang>
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Faith

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Re: Halloween!
« Reply #89 on: December 07, 2007, 12:43:00 PM »

*laugh!!!*   :D

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