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People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)
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The Interra Bang: A Punctuation Mark for the Uncertainty of the Age
The in terra bang is a way of circumventing the question about does the question mark come first or the exclamation point when we have a rhetorical question. In 1962 advertising agent Martin Spector thought okay we maybe need to do something about this kind of bunching together of question and explanation mark. It's not new as such because it's really just putting two things together like super imposing them, having one kind of sign doing the work of two others before so I'm not sure whether I would say it's revolutionary for me but I like it. There are typewriters where this key exists or where you can buy a key and include it.
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