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Thread poster: Ty Kendall
Ty Kendall
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United Kingdom
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Hebrew to English
Feb 28, 2013

Not Angry

Sinceriod

Sarcastises

HemiDSColon

Andorpersand

Mockwotation

Superellipsis

Morgan Freemark

Source: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6872071/8-new-and-necessary-punctuation-marks
 
Sonia Rubio
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So funny! Feb 28, 2013

I can picture myself using some of them...
 
Noni Gilbert Riley
Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
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Superellipsis Feb 28, 2013

No, no, no! Don't give the Spanish yet another chance to use "puntos suspensivos"....


Thanks Ty.

Best wishes

Noni
 
Sylvie Chartier
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Love it Feb 28, 2013

Sonia Rubio wrote:

I can picture myself using some of them...


I agree with Sonia and I can imagine people I know and which punctuation mark would so and so use...

Thank you for making my day!!
 
Kay Denney
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France
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French to English
Absolutely hilarious Mar 1, 2013

I'm sure there are plenty more just waiting to be invented !

How about one to specify that "I was just kidding there"? Would save a lot of arguments on the Net for a start.
Of course we'd then need a "Actually I'm being totally serious" too.

And another one for people who like to use an interrogative tone when it's not a question (which I take to be sort of short for "you know what I mean"?)

And how about a special sign for brackets within brackets?... See more
I'm sure there are plenty more just waiting to be invented !

How about one to specify that "I was just kidding there"? Would save a lot of arguments on the Net for a start.
Of course we'd then need a "Actually I'm being totally serious" too.

And another one for people who like to use an interrogative tone when it's not a question (which I take to be sort of short for "you know what I mean"?)

And how about a special sign for brackets within brackets? We have single and double quotation marks so we can use one then the other for speech within speech, but brackets within brackets are absolutely vital for people like me who love digressions!

And a punctuation equivalent for a smiley banging his head against the wall...


Feel like designing them Ty?


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