Have you ever heard of the Interrobang of punctuation? It's the combination of an exclamation point (!) and a question mark (?). You can see it goes something like this: ‽ I came across it while wandering the wilds of the internet.
Along a similar line (and I think even less commonly known) is the "Irony Mark" which is to indcate that the preceding sentence is to be understood at a second level. Here's an example of the irony mark: ؟
It's a wild world out there. (c:
Here are a few other interesting ones: the asterism (⁂), and the lozenge (◊), and 'because' (∵) which is the inverted form of the 'therefore' symbol (∴).
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Most browsers won't display some of those characters on your blog for some reason, probably due to the font set that's displaying them.
Try providing the actual ALT-### for each of them so that people could try typing them themselves. I assume they are still part of the big ASCII character set. There were a couple of those strange characters that I would use in my passwords, but I found that some older systems like Win98 wouldn't allow me to type them, so I stopped....Hmmm I just tried to duplicate those keystrokes again on my computer in three different contexts and none of them worked.
Weird. I never knew these existed. I should totally start using interrobangs since I do the "!?" thing a lot.
Shows up fine here.
I never really understood ∴ as therefore. After all... there are three.
Thanks for the post, Luke. It took me wandering around wikipedia, checking out the marks I'd never seen. I think I heard of the interrobang before, but certainly not the 'because' mark.
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