Re: rhetorically speaking

Stephen Mulraney wrote at 2004-05-14 20:41:40 (+0100)
 > Peter Bleackley wrote:
 >
 > > Staving Mark P. Line:
 > >
 > >> It would be interesting to know if there are any spoken or written
 > >> natlangs that have obligatory marking of rhetorical questions.
 > >
 > >
 > > There used to be a rhetorical question mark, which was a
 > > left-right flip of the normal one. However, printers never really
 > > took to it. It should be possible in LaTeX, however.
 > >
 > There used to be a rhetorical, flipped question mark? Interesting, but
 > when are we talking about?
 >

1580s-1600s, according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw925

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