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Re:.name Grandfathered by BoxOfRain on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:19PM (#50444063)

While it won't lessen your frustration, I applaud your use of the interrobang. That punctuation mark needs wider use.

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Re:.name Grandfathered by Spivak on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:23PM (#50444147)

It's a neat little mark but I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread because I think ?! has already won. I think it has a better chance of becoming an official grammatical digraph than the merged mark.

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Re:.name Grandfathered by sillysaurusx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:29PM (#50444239)

Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)

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Re:.name Grandfathered by adrian_b on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#50444773)

Besides interrobang, Unicode includes all 4 possible sequences of 2 "?" and "!".

  203C;DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  203D;INTERROBANG;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
  2047;DOUBLE QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 003F;;;;N;;;;;
  2048;QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  2049;EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 003F;;;;N;;;;;

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Re:.name Grandfathered by reaperducer on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:53PM (#50444545)

I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread

I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.

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Re:.name Grandfathered by saalweachter on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:04PM (#50445568)

It lost when computers overtook typewriters.

On a typewriter, you could type one punctuation mark, backspace, and then type another.

Even once computers added the interrobang to Unicode (or older systems), you either need to type in a numeric code, use a secret bucky bit, or select it from a graphical UI, none of which is worth it for more than the odd weirdo with a whimsical streak.

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Re:.name Grandfathered by nticompass on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:28PM (#50444226)

I'm not really frustrated, but it is annoying that I had to migrate accounts and stuff, but whatever.

And yes, I love the interrobang! Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

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Re:.name Grandfathered by lutoma on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:43PM (#50445300)

I have an auto substitution set up in iOS to automatically replace ?! with ‽ (Same for ellipsis, ... to …)

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Re:.name Grandfathered by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:49PM (#50445377)

And, presumably, "!?"?

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