What is an Interrobang?!
When picking up your copy of The Interrobang, you may have asked yourself that question. Like most, you probably asked, what is an interrobang? Is it a thing, a place, a person? Well, inquiring minds look no further, because here is the answer to one of the most commonly asked questions at Fanshawe.
In-ter-ro-bang or in-ter-a-bang n.
- A punctuation mark used after a sentence that is both a question and exclamation.
- The interrobang is a rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the funtions of a question mark and an exclamation point. The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other.
- A punctuation indicating emphatic disbelief: a punctuation mark in the form of a question mark over the top of an exclamation point. Martin K. Speckter invented the interrobang in 1962. Speckter, head of an American advertising agency, invented the interrobang because he felt advertisements would look better if a single mark was used to convey surprised queries. He named his mark after the Latin word, interrogatio, meaning "rhetorical questions" or "cross-examination."
In-ter-ro-bang or in-ter-a-bang n.
- A punctuation mark used after a sentence that is both a question and exclamation.
- The interrobang is a rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the funtions of a question mark and an exclamation point. The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other.
- A punctuation indicating emphatic disbelief: a punctuation mark in the form of a question mark over the top of an exclamation point. Martin K. Speckter invented the interrobang in 1962. Speckter, head of an American advertising agency, invented the interrobang because he felt advertisements would look better if a single mark was used to convey surprised queries. He named his mark after the Latin word, interrogatio, meaning "rhetorical questions" or "cross-examination."
