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Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 00.16
by Sput
Wow. Watch out Ghandi!

Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 00.33
by Not The Chef
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Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 00.36
by Sput
And you only know James Martin just said something apt when, er...

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Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 06.52
by marksi
Jenny wrote:
Gavin Scott wrote:

What the heck is that, and why do you do it?
Looks like a perfectly ordinary, common or garden interrobang to me. What's the problem‽
Er, no, that's not an interrobang. That's a symbol to indicate the font you're using does not have a symbol for an interrobang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 09.22
by Gavin Scott
marksi wrote:
Jenny wrote:
Gavin Scott wrote:

What the heck is that, and why do you do it?
Looks like a perfectly ordinary, common or garden interrobang to me. What's the problem‽
Er, no, that's not an interrobang. That's a symbol to indicate the font you're using does not have a symbol for an interrobang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
Well that would go a long way to explaining my confusion.

So can others see a square?

Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 11.01
by marksi
At home I can see a square, here in work I can see a squiggly thing that makes less sense than a square.

Posted: Wed 27 Sep, 2006 12.09
by Gavin Scott
marksi wrote:At home I can see a square, here in work I can see a squiggly thing that makes less sense than a square.
I see. Or rather, I don't. Not on either of my machines.

In any event, given that it is a, "rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark", it's probably best that it isn't used here.

Not that I need to explain my decision, naturally.