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[despammed] Re: Rhetorical questions.

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Friday, October 1, 2004, 22:28
caeruleancentaur wrote:

> I remember hearing, many years ago, of a punctuation mark that was a > combination of a question mark & an exclamation point. It even had a > name: interrobang. I believe "bang" was/is the printer's name for > the exclamation point. It was to be used for those emphatic > questions that didn't require an answer, e.g., "What the hell do you > think you're doing!?" Or would it be "?!"?
The interrobang is even in Unicode. Most fonts don't include it, though, but some do.