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| Interrobang invented by Martin Speckter |
Thanks to retired English Teacher, Ella Reff and software
engineer, LaRita Robinson I am aware of the interrobang!
The interrobang is defined by Merriam-Webster:” Definition
: a punctuation mark
designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical
question.”
When asked if he was serious about his invention of punctuation, he would reply
“ Somewhat more seriously than Elizabeth Taylor and
slightly less so than Khrushchev.”
The discovery of his
intriguing response was the funnest part of my research about him. I shall
contemplate using that sentence as a response when I am asked about my
earnestness of statements!
I wonder if he
really intended his interrobang rather than a period following the name of the
Soviet Premier?!
Having not the interrobang punctuation key on my keypad, I
was confined to the conventional style to indicate punctuation-intent.
