April 9, 2007
Two phat punctuation marks you’ve probably never heard of

“The Irony mark (؟) is a punctuation mark that purports to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. It is illustrated by a backward-facing question mark. An irony mark may sometimes be referred to as an irony point, snark or zing.” - Wikipedia

“The interrobang is a rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other, and the name interrobang comes from interro - from interrogative - and bang - used to amplify the exclamation.” - Wikipedia
Of course, these really won’t be useful until people understand what they mean. Toward this end I suggest we begin using them where applicable, with the hope that people will ask (or perhaps with an explanatory footnote). What do you think?

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my one question: what are their ascii codes so that we can start to use them?
Comment by mamid — April 9, 2007 @ 9:41 pm