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tar-ancalime · 07-20-2007, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Folwren

You surprise me, Firefoot. Being such a great writer as you are, surely you know that "?!" is not legal, so far as grammar and its laws are concerned?

I guess it's a little better than "!!", though not by much.

-- Foley

It's a perfectly acceptable form of punctuation! It even has a name, which is my favorite thing about it:

It's called the INTERROBANG ?!

***Thenamir*** · 11-28-2007, 11:34 AM

Now that the poll is closed, I am quite pleased to see that my initial favorite, the '?' did indeed win the overall poll, but with a mere plurality of 25%. All hail the Question Mark -- Herald of Answers-Yet-To-Be!

View Poll Results: Punctuation Slapdown 2007
.	2	10.00%
?	5	25.00%
?!	4	20.00%
...	1	5.00%
$	0	0%
€	0	0%
£	2	10.00%
~	3	15.00%
°	0	0%
∞	3	15.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

11-28-2007, 11:34 AM	#2
*Thenamir* Spectre of Capitalism Join Date: May 2001 Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae Posts: 987	Gnawing the ends of old threads Now that the poll is closed, I am quite pleased to see that my initial favorite, the '?' did indeed win the overall poll, but with a mere plurality of 25%. All hail the Question Mark -- Herald of Answers-Yet-To-Be! __________________ The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~~ Marcus Aurelius