A quick look on this site (especially with what the teenage population write) show that the exclamation and question mark, used together in an obnoxious manner abusive to punctuation, is quite popular. Countless times I've seen the eyesore "?!?!!!!!?".
The revision of the interrobang would, indeed, save not only punctuation abuse, but their own time when it comes to typing. (And, given that most words longer than four letters are made into abbreviations, I have no doubt they're all for "time savers".)
So why did the poor dear never catch on? Did writers simply not use it enough because their writing lacked the needed rhetoric?
The interrobang, however, is not to be grouped in with the idiotic-looking "point d’ironie" for rhetoric speech is quite different from irony. Whereas the interrobang is fun, jazzy, and cute, the point d'ironie marks are just plain silly.
2006-06-25
08:55:49
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