Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?message-squaremessage-square184fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square184fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKushan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoInterrobang. It’s this thing: ‽ More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it’s called. Who’s with me‽
minus-squareDrSleepless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoInterrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work. “Did you question the suspect?” “Yeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.”
minus-squaremoonlight@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoWhile I like the concept, I can’t help but prefer ‘!?’ or ‘?!’. There’s more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYeah, but you aren’t proper if you’re using more than one piece of punctuation at the end of your sentence. Them’s the rules. Unless…
minus-squarealexc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoOnly if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months ago“Press 1 to continue followed by the Octothorpes” Lol I love it
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI made AltGr + / type an interrobang so I’d always have access to it
Interrobang.
It’s this thing: ‽
More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it’s called.
Who’s with me‽
Interrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work.
“Did you question the suspect?”
“Yeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.”
While I like the concept, I can’t help but prefer ‘!?’ or ‘?!’. There’s more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
Yeah, but you aren’t proper if you’re using more than one piece of punctuation at the end of your sentence. Them’s the rules.
Unless…
Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes
“Press 1 to continue followed by the Octothorpes”
Lol I love it
You mean pound?
I made
AltGr + /type an interrobang so I’d always have access to it