From: John D. Burger (john@mitre.org)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 09:22:51 CDT
John Hudson wrote:
> My objection to the interrobang remains that it ambiguates that which
> the independent question mark and exclamation marks expressly
> disambiguate. But perhaps this amounts to my saying that not making
> clear whether an utterance is a question or an exclamation is poor
> rhetoric.
I mentioned this before, but received no reply - do you insist that no
utterances can be both questions and exclamations?
For what it's worth, here are the relevant (to my mind) definitions
from Webster:
question
1 a (1) : an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge
(2) : an interrogative sentence or clause
exclamation
1 : a sharp or sudden utterance
2 : vehement expression of protest or complaint
Thanks.
- John D. Burger
MITRE
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