Talk:interrobang
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where does the spelling interabang come from? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense to exclaim and question at the same time
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Really? Theknightwho (talk) 20:01, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- It's the kind of word that amateur self-published authors love. Easily cited. Smurrayinchester (talk) 07:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Is it really a good idea to cite obscure senses of words almost entirely to amateur self-published authors? Looking at the four works cited, the first seems to be by someone desperately trying to look clever with nobody buying it; the second comes from the main author of a now-defunct "micropress" whose publicity seems to have stated that she created it solely because no mainstream publisher had any idea what she was trying to say, or would touch her work with a forty-foot pole; the third is apparently from a nonsense series published by an obscure independent Canadian press; and only the fourth appears to be a semi-serious use of the word by an author appearing in a real book that might just possibly be found gathering dust in an academic library. The others give the impression of works found only in electronic form, printed on demand, or likely that the entire print run has been remaindered. P Aculeius (talk) 04:45, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- If it's only used by them, yeah. (Also, why does it matter if a term is only used in amateur works as of the present? It's still a word in use.) CitationsFreak (talk) 02:13, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- This is clearly meant to be a humorous term. (Does it make for a good joke? YMMV.) I was able to find print cites going back to 1978. The earliest unambiguous usage as "to exclaim and question at the same time" seems to be from a 1998 novel by Laura J. Mixon. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 10:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Is it really a good idea to cite obscure senses of words almost entirely to amateur self-published authors? Looking at the four works cited, the first seems to be by someone desperately trying to look clever with nobody buying it; the second comes from the main author of a now-defunct "micropress" whose publicity seems to have stated that she created it solely because no mainstream publisher had any idea what she was trying to say, or would touch her work with a forty-foot pole; the third is apparently from a nonsense series published by an obscure independent Canadian press; and only the fourth appears to be a semi-serious use of the word by an author appearing in a real book that might just possibly be found gathering dust in an academic library. The others give the impression of works found only in electronic form, printed on demand, or likely that the entire print run has been remaindered. P Aculeius (talk) 04:45, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Comprehensive evidence provided - RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 10:28, 20 November 2024 (UTC)