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[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Paul De Filippo notes:
"I always hoped the "interrobang" would catch on, a fusion
of exclamation point and question mark.  Also, consider the
Tibetan "terma", three dots arranged in a mini-pyramid,
signalling that text preceding is holy.  Should TRP use this!?"


That three-dot triangle is also a mathematical symbol whose use escapes
my decaffeinated brain just now.

I was always fond of the "pronequark," which was proposed about the same
time as the interrobang--a questionmark on its side, signifying a
rhetorical statement, eg. "Does anyone really care what reviewers think
of M&D [question mark on side]"

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)