Is there a Greek version of the INTERROBANG?

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Fri Sep 18 09:39:10 CDT 2020


Marius Spix wrote:

> So you could compose an exclamation mark with a comma instead of a dot
> with U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I and U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW,
> but it still does not look right

That's because it isn't right. The exclamation mark is not derived from a capital I.

> and I am not even sure, if there is any evidence for such a character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#%22Question_comma%22,_%22exclamation_comma%22

There are actually books about punctuation. One, which I regrettably do not yet own, is "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks," by Keith Houston. Such works might be useful for answering this question and the earlier one about the origin of the less-than sign.

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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org





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