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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: on Nostr: Today is National Punctuation Day! So let’s talk about the interrobang. “What the ...

Today is National Punctuation Day! So let’s talk about the interrobang. “What the heck is that‽” you ask/exclaim?

In 1962, advertising agency director Martin K. Speckter had seen one too many sentences ending with ?!. So he suggested that we generate a new punctuation character called “interrobang.” He wrote up his recommendation for the publication TYPEtalks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

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