No flabbergasterisk or stupendapoint?

I once suffered an asterism after a particularly vigorous bout of interrobanging.

I'm surprised people wouldn't know about the section mark and the dagger, if they read academic books at all. Also the "pilcrow" though I've always just thought of it as "the paragraph mark."

The "because" thing is common if you do math of any sort, though I wasn't aware you could type it easily. But just like the "upside down A" mark meaning "for all" people would know it. Speaking of which, do they consider that "for all" punctuation? If so, why is it not in this list?

Meanwhile I can type a ⁂ easily enough in Japanese mode (I can make snowmen even, in case I need to make a weather report: ☃) but I didn't know the name of it.

Snarfangel: No flabbergasterisk or stupendapoint?

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"Flabbergasterisk" is an AWESOME term.

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fusillade762: I once suffered an asterism after a particularly vigorous bout of interrobanging.

I hedera you.

Interrobang kind of sounds like it should be the title of a really, really depraved German pornographic film.

Meh.

Sid_6.7: The real question is: How many of those exist in modern fonts?

Honestly.

Sid_6.7: I knew about most of those.

The real question is: How many of those exist in modern fonts?

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itazurakko: I'm surprised people wouldn't know about the section mark and the dagger, if they read academic books at all. Also the "pilcrow" though I've always just thought of it as "the paragraph mark."

The "because" thing is common if you do math of any sort, though I wasn't aware you could type it easily. But just like the "upside down A" mark meaning "for all" people would know it. Speaking of which, do they consider that "for all" punctuation? If so, why is it not in this list?

I'd say a lot of those symbols (the because one, or the section symbol, for instance), really aren't punctuation strictly speaking. So the "for all" symbol might qualify to be on this list given their apparently loose definition, but it is really shorthand, not punctuation.

Come on, who didn't know about the hedera? Sheesh. I kept expecting to see the semi-colon on the list.

untaken_name: Come on, who didn't know about the hedera? Sheesh. I kept expecting to see the semi-colon on the list.

We're on Fark. A lot of people here could stand to learn a bit about the basic punctuation marks such as commas, periods and apostrophes.

Interrobang ‽ is Alt+8253 in the Meiryo font

I knew the majority of those. I guess reading old junk has its purposes.

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untaken_name: Come on, who didn't know about the hedera?



Agrees.

lohphat: Next up: abandoned letters of English:

Eth: Ð ð (voiced "th" generally)
Thorn: Þ þ (unvoiced "th" generally)
Wynn: Ƿ ƿ (replaced by "uu" then "w", thus double-u not double-v)
Yogh: Ȝ ȝ (replaced by "y" often confused for script "z" thus maintained misspelling of "McKenzie" in Lowland Scots)

I went to Iceland earlier this year and they love their Ethes and Thorns. Fun seeing them on road signs everywhere, even if a lot of the language was incomprehensible.

I use some of those all the time... bit-shift, OR/pipe, anchor/exclusion. I really wish there was an ASCII code for the snark mark, though - it would make my emails much more understandable.

On a side note, I wonder if the Solidus has anything to do with the symbol for Peruvian currency S/.

I sheffer stroked myself last night.

"snark mark" = http://www.fark.com/

A few of these are available in Ariel via the Character Map. Maybe other typefaces too.

/Typeface is a family, font is a size in that family.

I'm familiar with at least half of those. And I was not an English major in college. Did subby drop out of high school? I cannot imagine what sort of mental lightweight would be astonished by the pilcrow or interrobang, or the section sign.

‽ Shows up in Unicode fonts when I paste it into notepad, but can't be found in Character Map. Interesting ‽

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sgnilward: tallguywithglasseson

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Wow, somebody's is a mood this morning!

/Lighten up, Francis.

itazurakko: I'm surprised people wouldn't know about the section mark and the dagger, if they read academic books at all. Also the "pilcrow" though I've always just thought of it as "the paragraph mark."

The "because" thing is common if you do math of any sort, though I wasn't aware you could type it easily. But just like the "upside down A" mark meaning "for all" people would know it. Speaking of which, do they consider that "for all" punctuation? If so, why is it not in this list?

Meanwhile I can type a ⁂ easily enough in Japanese mode (I can make snowmen even, in case I need to make a weather report: ☃) but I didn't know the name of it.

How is it that my browser will properly render the snowman, but it won't properly render a stupid single quote on half the webpages I visit?

I grew you a ❦
But the drought made it ❧

❡ Looks like the ghey version of ¶

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What's the point of a "snark mark"? Putting the equivalent of an emoticon into a sentence to show that you're being ironic or sarcastic shows either weakness on your communication skills or a lack of faith in your readers' ability to see what you did there. You may as well put a scrolling marquee of large, red text stating, "THIS IS A JOKE."

Jokes on you article, I knew the Exclamation Comma existed; I saw it used on a poster two days ago at work.

/I've used Microsoft Word before and have taken a math class above high school algebra so I knew six others.