From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 13:56:21 CDT
John,
> There is a reason why you so seldom see ?! or !? in books, excepting some juvenile novels:
> most authors and copy editors know the difference between a question and an exclamation
> and they decide which is appropriate. They do not leave the status of an utterance
> ambiguous.
Ah, the tyranny of the copy editors! This, too, shall pass, when all the
current 2nd grade teachers retire and the current 2nd graders become
copy editors!
> I have about a thousand books sitting around me, and I'd be hard pressed to
> find ?! in any of them.
You must not have many comic books among them, then -- particularly ones of the
manga variety. ;-)
--Ken
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