12 Little-Known Punctuation Marks - Interrobangs, Snark marks and more

[editor]

Ooh, I like these!

12 Little-Known Punctuation Marks More People Should Be Using

No one can tell if you're being ironic or sarcastic when you end sentences in periods. Clarify your messages with these handy (and genius!) punctuation marks.

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[DotCommunist]

I've got a lot of time for the interrobang and think its got genuine potential use, but it needs a name that doesn't sound like a synonym for fingerbang.

 

[fishfinger]

They are also a pain in the arse to type‽

 

[Yossarian]

These look useful. ~

 

[Santino]

I'd really value a mark to indicate when I'm being sarcastic.

 

[fishfinger]

I'd really value a mark to indicate when I'm being sarcastic.

Would it make a difference?

 

[StoneRoad]

learnt a new word ...

 

[trabuquera]

I thought that "..... /s " was already sort of recognised as the 'I was being sarcastic there' code?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got this book somewhere - Shady Characters by Keith Houston. Quite interesting history of the weird pronunciation marks. Also got his book on the book which is quite lovely really.

Shady Characters – The secret life of punctuation

shadycharacters.co.uk

I like the term octothorpe

There is a pub in Manchester called the Pilcrow

www.thepilcrowpub.com

 

[blossie33]

That's very interesting, particularly the information about the Birmingham street signs, I'd never really noticed the punctuation marks on some of them.

 

[blossie33]

Further to the punctuation on street signs, there is an article about the subject on Spitalfields Life today and I see that punctuation marks were also used in London.





Blog here for anyone interested London Street Signs | Spitalfields Life

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

what is the characteR...nvm found it

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INTERROBANG
Unicode: U+203D, UTF-8: E2 80 BD