From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 05:08:04 CST
I have to agree with what John says below.
mg
Scríobh John Hudson:
> ...
> I have no major objection to the existence and use of the interrobang in this expressive
> way, and more than I object to Japanese schoolgirls dotting their i's with hearts. What
> I'm objecting to is the claim that it is a 'punctuation mark', which implies a grammatical
> function. Insofar as the interrobang confuses the two distinct grammatical constructions
> normally distinguished by the question and exclamation marks, one could call it an
> anti-punctuation mark; it actually diminishes the grammatical information available to the
> reader.
>
> John Hudson
-- 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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