12 October 2007

[type] Blue Dog Rocks the Interrobang

1007. Blue Dog Blog™ caught my eye today–the scar will heal over fine, thank you all very much–with the mention of the little known interrobang.

Here is the interrobang, in case anyone needs a big look at it:

Interrogative mark (question mark)+bang (exclaimation-mark in printer- and geek- speak)=interrobang. It was developed to simplify sentences such as the following:

You can't be serious !?

Informational links can be found at Blue Dog Blog™ at the link above. I wanted to mention it because, hey, it's type and hey, it's cool when someone brings the old interrobang out to play.

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