If this doesn't already exist, I want to make it exist!
A question mark combined with a comma! So you can say things like "Why? Because blah blah blah." with out it looking grammatically incorrect!
It would look something like [url=http://i54.tinypic.com/241woec.png]this.[/url]
Good idea?
Is there something that already does this?
June 19, 2011
19 Comments • Newest first
@^ Interrobang! Basil doesn't support them unfortunately.
[quote=zerosabor]im pretty sure everyone thinks that question marks end sentences and the word after that has to begin with a capital letter, well atleast everyone i know
Back to the topic: good idea, if they have commas and full stops, why not have comma question marks and normal question marks, especially when you're going to use it for rhetorical questions and its just silly having to use capital letters when you clearly haven't finished the sentence[/quote]
Hence why it's a little known fact. It's proper English, although doing so would probably be a tad informal.
@MooseSSesooM: The picture is even worse. Get out.
Speech commonly uses sentence fragments.
Now every single keyboard in the world will need to be updated/replaced... =/
[quote=Prendergast]No. Go away. Why change something that works perfectly? That's stupid.
Seriously, reading ",?" makes me want to effing stab you. Right in your face. Bloody idiots having no respect for language anymore these days.[/quote]
Wow, some one has mental issues that requires professional help. =O
",?" is just what I was using instead of the pic I have posted up there, no need to stab me in my face.
@Above
It was an example. >_>
No. Go away. Why change something that works perfectly? That's stupid.
Seriously, reading ",?" makes me want to effing stab you. Right in your face. Bloody idiots having no respect for language anymore these days.
Okay, I just thought of a better way to explain how this works. (Seems how some people don't get it.)
A : B, you are a total freaking moron!
B : How?
A : HOW,? YOU SAY STUPID THINGS!
See,? it works!
[quote=Subception]Unnecessary and silly. Answering a question with "Why?, because..." is stupid, if you're answering the question you don't need to reaffirm the initial 'why', it'd be obvious that's what you're answering. The interrobang on the other hand, is a brilliant idea.[/quote]
I've had to post "why? because..." thing on basil lots, because the TS usually doesn't know who I am responding to, some times other people respond to me asking wtf I mean. >_>
WTF is an "interrobang"? I googled it and I got bull crap like "ALL HAIL INTERROBANG!" and bs like that. o_o
You know, that could actually work.
[quote=Kevvl]You can actually insert a question mark as-is into the middle of a sentence in a situation like that and still be grammatically correct. Little known fact: question marks don't end sentences, they end questions. When the question IS a sentence (or at the end of one), then they end the sentence.[/quote]
Really? I always used to do that and my teacher got mad at me.
@Above
Too lazy, didn't do.
You can actually insert a question mark as-is into the middle of a sentence in a situation like that and still be grammatically correct. Little known fact: question marks don't end sentences, they end questions. When the question IS a sentence (or at the end of one), then they end the sentence.
the spannish language just uses ? as a ?,
why?, that's genius
[quote=Humanmango]You aren't supposed to begin a statement with "because" in written language anyways.[/quote]
What about "Because I had to study for my exams, I couldn't make it the party."
[quote=Humanmango]You aren't supposed to begin a statement with "because" in written language anyways.[/quote]
Exactly what this is for! Example :
Dude : Why do you eat food?
Dude responding : Why? Because I have to.
See, that isn't right! This is so you can make it right!
Instead, it would be :
Dude responding : Why(CommaQuestionmarkThing) because I have to.
If you say "Why, because I have to." it makes "why" the start and it isn't right.
If you say "Why? Because I have to." it is grammatically incorrect.
If you say "Why(,?) because I have to." if you say it out loud it SOUNDS like "Why? Because I have to." but is combined with a comma.
It does the same thing as a comma AND a question mark, at the same time!
[quote=DeanBolt]The comma looks like a little hand pointing at something, I wonder what...[/quote]
It's just the font that Paint uses as default. o_o
Sure? Sure what?
Sure, it's a good idea? Sure, it's already made? What?
Don't worry, it's just a question mark that has the '.' replaced with a ','.
Not that I know of.
Sure go for it buddy. Patent it and sell it to Microsoft for gajillions.