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I've seen these "non-standard" ones in practice: ?! - Shock and confusion "Apple did what?!" /s - Sarcasm "wow, I'm happy /s" (?) - Doubt "I think Mark said
by asperous 9y ago
I've seen these "non-standard" ones in practice:
?! - Shock and confusion "Apple did what?!"
/s - Sarcasm "wow, I'm happy /s"
(?) - Doubt "I think Mark said we was done (?)"
- jerrre 9y agoalso: (!) - Drawing extra attention, maybe belittling: "He wore sandals(!)"
- pasquinelli 9y agosort of related: it drives me crazy when people use a question mark to show doubt, (sometimes sarcastically), instead of to ask a question. i've never seen (?) before, but i see "i think mark said he was done?", a lot. even though it drives me crazy, it shows that special punctuation is unnecessary. people can just keep doing that awful thing, and there's no real ambiguity.
- nonsince 9y agoMany people raise the pitch of their voice as if asking a question when saying something doubtfully, so the question mark reads similarly to how one would say it out loud. If you have access to formatting, a similar way of achieving the same thing would be to italicise "think"