13 punctuation marks that you never knew existed

[Liar]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed

Ok, that's bull. I knew about some of them.

Npw, if I ever find out how to get an exclamation comma out of my keyboard, I'm gonna use it. All. The. Time.

 

[Kurokami]

Oh my god, I would be so happy to figure out how to produce an exclamation or question comma on a keyboard. Those things'd open up some interesting new sentence structures, for sure.

Ah, and also the Interrobang. Partially because I've always found it awkward to put an exclamation mark right after a question mark, but also because the word itself is badass. I'd imagine I'd always add an exclamation mark right after it. Interrobang!

 

[Liar]

Interrobang!

That's when you question someone during sex, right?

 

[Handley_Page]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed

Ok, that's bull. I knew about some of them.

Npw, if I ever find out how to get an exclamation comma out of my keyboard, I'm gonna use it. All. The. Time.

What that description of those marks did not say was whether the marks are part of the ASCII set.
Or any other set for that matter (available, that is, to the user of the keyboard, not a Printer).

 

[Liar]

What that description of those marks did not say was whether the marks are part of the ASCII set.
Or any other set for that matter (available, that is, to the user of the keyboard, not a Printer).

These are all ANSI. Can be found with keypad combos.

^ | § ¶ «» ⁄ † ‡

 

[Handley_Page]

These are all ANSI. Can be found with keypad combos.

^ | § ¶ «» ⁄ † ‡

I have never managed to get thes other ANSI characters.
I seem to recall it is a ALT plus some number, but quite what and where I have yet to find out.

 

[Liar]

I have never managed to get thes other ANSI characters.
I seem to recall it is a ALT plus some number, but quite what and where I have yet to find out.

ALT and four digits. Which ones I don't know. I used the charachter map in Open Office.

 

[oggbashan]

ALT and four digits. Which ones I don't know. I used the charachter map in Open Office.

This gives the extended ASCII table.

Press the ALT key and the numbers in the first column.

e.g. ALT 232 = Þ

 

[oggbashan]

ANSI characters?

I have found the ANSI character sets but they don't seem to work as I expect.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The Hedera looks like something that definitely belongs on Lit! However, instead of using it to indicate a paragraph we should use to indicate anal intercourse.

And I like the Snark and the Interobang, myself. The question is how to make my keyboard type them. ASCII, huh? I'll give it a try.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Just don’t use more than one Interogbang or you will have an Interogangbang.

 

[Sugary_Comfort]

While the exclamation comma is nice, there's not exactly a reason for it since you can get away with a regular old exclamation point in the middle of a sentence. I've seen it numerous times. The same goes for using a regular question mark in the middle of a sentence.

I, myself, will use the regular exclamation point in the middle of a sentence. I try not to do it when writing my stories, but I have been known to put one or two in there. It does make for really fun sentences.

I don't know I think more marks isn't what we need but more use of the marks we have. Like, I love how you can being reading sentences in Spanish and they'll put the question mark or exclamation point in front of as well as at the end of a sentence. That way you know for sure how to read the sentence. I always hate it when I'm reading to myself or aloud and I read the sentence like normal only to find out it needs some sort of intonation at the end because of a question mark or exclamation point. I end up having to go back and read the sentence again or else it bugs me.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

The Interobang was invented In 1962 by Martin K. Speckter, president of Martin K. Speckter Associates, an advertising agency that handled promotion for Wall Street Journal, National Observer, Barrons Weekly and Dowe Jones News Service. He proposed it be used to jazz up "surprised rhetorical questions" --- in advertising, I presume.

Some names considered were rhet, exclarotive, and exclamaquest, before they settled on the interobang.

There is also a reversed and upside down interobang for use in Spanish, Galician and Asturian text called the gnaborretni, but I could find no one who would own up to creating it, and even the Wikipedia page faulted on my computer when trying to display a gnaborretni.

Wikipedia

 

[wickedangeleyes]

Some of the comments on that really cracked me up.

This one made me laugh...

“Interrobang” is a great word. It sounds like you're being questioned by the police when things suddenly and unexpectedly get sexy! (Incidentally, my cousin has Asterism. It's no laughing matter. We try not to bring it up at family reunions.)

 

[The_Fool]

Liar, you have no need for these tawdry mechanisms. Your words speak worlds without them.

 

[Liar]

I must say that I am opposed to the snark mark. The whole point of irony and sarcasm is that it's funny for those who get it, at the expense of those who don't.

It's like excessive use of . Don't do it, folks.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... The whole point of irony and sarcasm is that it's funny for those who get it, at the expense of those who don't...

Not online, there the unintended consequence of unappreciated irony is twenty heart-burning off-topic posts of sniping between people who once were friends and now are at daggers drawn over a misunderstanding.

Of anything which makes the writer's intention clearer, I am in favor.

 

[xssve]

I have found the ANSI character sets but they don't seem to work as I expect.

Accessories> System Tools> Character Map.

It's the only reliable way, since MS is constantly messing with any and all standards, ansi, W3C, etc., protecting their OS monopoly by making WinX functionally incompatible with anything that does follow the standards.

Character Map is an MS app so it should work, pin it to your start menu or task bar.

Cæsar.

 

[Liar]

Of anything which makes the writer's intention clearer, I am in favor.

Well that didn't clear it up. ARE you in favor or did the mean that it's a sarcastic remark?

And what does mean?

 

[trysail]

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[mynameisben]

I once wrote a poem that consisted of nothing but punctuation.

Nobody liked it.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I once wrote a poem that consisted of nothing but punctuation.

Nobody liked it.

You're the John Cage of poetry.

 

[mynameisben]

You're the John Cage of poetry.

Thanks. I take that as high praise, indeed. Cage was a renaissance man and a true genius. When most heroes pass on, they are given a minute of silence. But when John Cage died, I granted him a full 4'33".

 

[wishfulthinking]

My hand slipped, no wait, that is the sheffer stroke.

I don't remember getting taught 90% of those in school - and I don't know how I would text without half of them now!

 

[trysail]

Inverted question mark     ¿
Numero sign                №
Therefore sign             ∴
Because sign               ∵
Interrobang                ‽
Lozenge                    ◊