From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 10:50:37 CDT
Can you/anyone else on this list define those concepts succinctly, Jon?
I ask because, although I own some champion chess books, I have yet to
see an interrobang; much of my lifetime having been spent working on
dictionaries, I regard pure concepts as terra firma.
All the best,
mg
Scríobh Jon Hanna:
>
> Antoine Leca wrote:
> >
> > In chess, I remember there were a difference between !? (a 'interesting'
> > move with consequences dubious or overlooked by the player) and ?! (a
> > dubious move, albeit it is not evidently wrong as analysed by the
> > commenter.)
> >
> > I am not aware interrobang is used for them, though.
>
> Interrobang is not used for them, and should not be. The concepts
> combined in the interrobang is quite different from those concepts
> described in the above chess notation, even though the same symbols are
> used to convey them.
-- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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