i find myself disatisfied with using the blunt instrument of an exclamation mark for everything.
sometimes its effective but often it looks adolescent or pompous on the page.
2007-01-10 13:32:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I would imagine that the best source of information on this subject would be en encyclopedia dealing with the Printing industry and it's history. Most punctuation marks are, after all merely an extent ion of the editors' art that have been past on to Us via the printed media. Have You ever looked at an old typewriter and noticed how the keys are different to Your "QWERTY" board? Or the fact that there is no 'heart shaped' punctuation mark to represent "fact', 'truth' or 'honesty'? My personal preference for a new 'exclaimed' punctuation mark would be something like a capital O filled in so as to show frustration as not being able to find something. But alas, I dream of a perfect world!
2007-01-10 13:52:33 · answer #1 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They combined an exclamation point with a question mark and called it an interbang, I think. It never really caught on.
2007-01-10 23:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by banjuja58 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they should make some weird symbol like in the spanish language which has lots of different stuff like for example I love this symbol âï» isnt that symbol so cool! I just like it, ok!
2007-01-10 21:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by ~V@NN@H~ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you could make a few suggestions yourself. By the way, 'dissatisfied' has a double ''s". Cheers.
2007-01-10 21:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
haha, so true!
I guess if another one were invented, we'd all have to get new keyboards, and that would kind of suck.
2007-01-10 21:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Yalena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nice question...dont know and definitely...;0)
2007-01-10 22:20:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋