Alexia wrote:bilky asko wrote:Because a q without a u is already used for transliterating Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew words into English.
Long ago, Welsh translations of English words such as giraffe had to be spelt siraffe because there was no j.. sound in Welsh. Then they decided to add J to Welsh. I think we should do the same in English. Make all those johnny foreigner words use k or c, and claim back Q for ourselves.
Of course, as the English language is unregulated, there is no way of enforcing such a change. All the dictionaries would ignore the change, and that would be the end of that.
Sput wrote:I'm just outraged that no-one is using the interrobang.
I would use it more if there was an interrobang key on the keyboard. It is an excellent piece of punctuation.
