{"id":2830,"date":"2004-09-27T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/27\/interrobang\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:17:50","slug":"interrobang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/27\/interrobang\/","title":{"rendered":"Interrobang\u203d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever decide to move away from &#8216;eclecticism&#8217; as a site name (which I&#8217;m not likely to do anytime soon), I think &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.completetranslation.com\/punctuation.htm\" title=\"A History Of Punctuation\">interrobang\u203d<\/a>&#8216; would be a great replacement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The English language is constantly evolving. During the twentieth century alone we observed this evolution in many ways: spelling changes, new words, technology terms, scientific terms, and colloquialisms. Punctuation is also evolving. In 1962, the interrobang (\u203d), was introduced by the New York publishing establishment as &#8220;a twentieth century punctuation mark&#8221;. The interrobang combined the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. It received some attention at first, but never caught on, although for a brief period during the 1960s it was added to some typewriter keyboards.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/09\/27\/wtf_is_an_interroban.html\" title=\"WTF is an interrobang\u203d\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever decide to move away from &#8216;eclecticism&#8217; as a site name (which I&#8217;m not likely to do anytime soon), I think &#8216;interrobang&#8253;&#8217; would be a great replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}