• waigl@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I don’t like the interrobang. It looks too crowded, and the sharp angle created between the question mark and the exclamation mark looks out of place in among latin alphabet letters.

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      18 hours ago

      100% agree. We should have taken an opportunity to create a new symbol for question/exclamation rather than combine two together.

      Interrobang looks awful written down.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        19 hours ago

        It looks like a cross between double-typed characters from an old-school typewriter, and an optical illusion where the seemingly straight lines of the exclamation cast squiggly shadows.

        Either way, IMO it’s quite busy and visually unappealing. Gove me a good ol’ !? any day of the week.

        Plus, depending on context !? and ?! could mean two entirely different things; to me, the former is a sign of incredulity “What the fuck!?” - while the latter is a yelled question “Can you hear me?!”