h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Interrobang Marks - A3558288
Author: Vice-Mistress Kat (scouting for you) - U234368

I hope this isn't a bit short. It's all the information I could find. I wanted to bring some attention to the interrobang just because it looks cool

Kat

I never knew they were called that, or what they were used for - very interesting

One thing that bothered me was the quote -
'You wouldn't think I still sheep ears up my nose did you!?'

Is this the verb 'to sheep'!?

Alex

*cough*

Who knows what that was!?

Changed now though.

Very interesting Entry Kat - and right in the spirit of hootoo.

I'm always writing sentences that require an interrobang and to date have been using the clumsy '!?'. In future, I'll try to find the proper symbol on Wingdings 2.

One gripe - I had to read to the bottom of your Entry to discover what shape an interrobang is. Any chance of explaining this earlier?

Good point. I'm rather hoping that if it gets picked then someone will kindly do a picture of one to go at the top of the entry, as h2 doesn't seem to accept any coding to create an interrobang. I'll slot in a description of it at the start however. Thanks for pointing that out.

Done

Perhaps you could insert it in a word document from wingdings 2 and then cut and paste it to your Entry?

Suggested improvement:

"...and still is '!?' As in..." > "...and still is '!?' as in:"

i.e. use lower case 'a' in 'as'. Put a colon at the end rather than the ellipses.

I tried pasting one in from Word and it just ended up as a ? Maybe I'll have...oh wait I can't look through the special characters coding for the BBC....the search function has gone up the flip.

Typo:

But despite its brief flurry of poplarity > popularity

Suggested improvement:

it soon sank into the background > sank into oblivion

sorted

I'm on the ball today!

Oh Alex I've sent an email to Paully about you and SkankyRich, hopefully you should hear from him within the next five days or so.

Thanks Kat!

I think this is just the kind of entry the EG was made for And it'd be perfect for having a graphic too

"This punctuation marks is precisely correct"
Is that the actual quote, or a mis-type? If it's actually in the wuote then you need to put '[sic]' after the word 'marks'

contruct - construct

afterall - after all

hulahoops - hula hoops

"in the fonts, Lucida Sans"
no need for a comma


Scout

I just had a look in my Wingdings 2 file - I don't see an Interrobang

Thank you! Changed all of those points.

Change your font to Wingding2 and then press shift and 6

Yep - that works.

It really is a bit cumbersome looking.

But less cumbersome than !? of course...

I think it is stretching it to say that the name "interrobang" comes from Latin. You seem to be overlooking the fact that what is called a question mark in the UK is also called an interrogation point in America.

I know that "interrogation" comes from Latin originally, but that is not really relevant.