In my quest for new and ever-more-interesting ways to communicate, I have discovered non-standard punctuation.<\/p>\n
We all know periods and commas. I am particularly fond of the semi-colon, and I make fair use of dashes. (Dashes are the “house style” at work. I am not, actually, a fan of the dash. I find it… sloppy<\/i>.) And question marks and exclamation points.<\/p>\n
But what about the interrobang<\/a>‽<\/p>\n The interrobang was made, obviously, for the sixth Doctor’s dialogue. “Carrot juice? Carrot juice‽ Carrot juice!” Look at how natural that looks. It has the proper sixth Doctor-esque cadence. It’s not a question, it’s not an exclamation, it falls somewhere in-between.<\/p>\n And then, the irony mark<\/a>! Also called the “snark.” Which, in this case, is definitely not<\/b> a boojum, you see.<\/p>\n Yes, there is a piece of punctuation specifically for sarcasm, irony, and the rhetorical question. The irony mark.<\/p>\n Which I would, naturally, never ever want to use؟<\/font> Because, really, I’m not sarcastic. No, not at all؟<\/font><\/p>\n Punctuation. Signposts on the highways and byways of language. Learn it. Use it. Confuse with it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my quest for new and ever-more-interesting ways to communicate, I have discovered non-standard punctuation. We all know periods and commas. I am particularly fond of the semi-colon, and I make fair use of dashes. (Dashes are the “house style” at work. I am not, actually, a fan of the dash. I find it… sloppy.)Continue reading “On Non-Standard Punctuation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[360,707,358],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-punctuation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}