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Don’t forget about interrobang, aka “?!” “Shriek” is a new one to me, however. What context is it used in?
by cbsks 8y ago
Don’t forget about interrobang, aka “?!”
“Shriek” is a new one to me, however. What context is it used in?
- ColinWright 8y agoFrom Wikipedia[0]: > The name given to "!" by programmers varies according to their background. In the UK the term pling was popular in the earlier days of computing, whilst in the United States, the term shriek was used. It is claimed that these word usages were invented in the US and shriek is from Stanford or MIT; however, shriek for the ! sign is found in the Oxford English Dictionary dating from the 1860s. From another web site[1]: > It is also called an exclamation mark or tellingly, in newspaper jargon, a shriek. ================ References: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers [1] https://www.thoughtco.com/multiple-exclamation-points-1691411 https://www.thoughtco.com/multiple-exclamation-points-169141...