Timeline for Is there a standard ordering for the question mark and the exclamation mark used together?
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 8:49 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd say that this answer trumps an arrogation, even one from an 'expert'. The functions of punctuation are primarily to improve clarity and ease of reading, including to distinguish alternative readings, and to add subtextual information (! = this was shouted / needs the reader's full focus). As such, using the question mark and exclamation mark together on occasion is a valuable option; a more stylish option would of course be more favourable, but doesn't always spring to mind. | |
| S Mar 30, 2014 at 0:53 | history | suggested | LJNielsenDk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Matching up ordering in main and edit part.
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| Dec 8, 2011 at 7:47 | comment | added | sarah | @Synetechinc. Perhaps any emphatic rhetorical question? | |
| Mar 1, 2011 at 21:28 | comment | added | Synetech | That the order of ‘?!’ occurs about twice as often as the opposite makes sense. The sentence is after all fundamentally a question. The exclamation modifies the sentence less than the interrogative does, and so feels more natural to be secondary. I suppose a sentence could exist which is more exclamation and the inquisitive aspect is secondary, in which case reversing the punctuations would make sense—if I can managed to think of one I’ll post it. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 22:52 | history | edited | nohat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 12, 2010 at 21:45 | vote | accept | BoltClock | ||
| Aug 12, 2010 at 21:44 | comment | added | nohat | @Noldorin, as far as I know, there is no convenient and freely searchable corpus of British English, contemporary or otherwise (which I think in the sense of contemporary used, would be contrasted with historical rather than traditional). | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 21:38 | comment | added | Noldorin | Pfft, "Contemporary American English". Where's your traditional British English now!? | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 21:34 | history | answered | nohat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |