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Quomma
A new punctuation mark. | |
To sit in between queries and declarative statements in conversational writing to indicate the tone. The mark would be a hybrid of the curl of a question mark with the twist of a comma.
Examples:
"Are you trying to imitate a famous author <quomma> or is this your normal writing style <conventional
question mark>"
"You really like this opera (quomma) because I think that it sucks <conventional period>"
When recording long strings of dialog in conventional English the presence of the Quomma cues you to the emotional rise of the preceding words while allowing you smoothly transition into the remainder of the sentence.
Semiquestion
Semiquestion
Same thing? [jutta, May 30 2009]
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I thought it was going to be a cross between a quotation mark and a comma, like this: ,, |
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I like the first one, but the second sounds too much like a
disease to be a punctuation mark. |
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Perhaps you would use the "?" without the "." on the bottom. |
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We've discussed a similar punctuation mark before under the name "Semiquestion". If they're different in your eyes, when would one use one, when the other? |
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The semiquestion would be apropos when a complete questioning statement is followed by a complete declarative construction. The Quomma is used when a complete or fragmentary query is followed by a second complete or fragmentary construction. Similar to a comma the Quomma is intended to cause a brief pause without the abruptness of a full stop. |
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Sadly neither of these ideas seems to get any traction. Pedants hate change. Pedaints don't want the complexity of a new punctuation mark. |
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That's the weirdest conspiracy theory I've heard all day. |
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Allow me to be the first pedant to pedantize your proposed punctuation mark. In your first example sentence, the second phrase is also a question, and thus should end with either a quomma or a conventional question mark. |
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Good point. I'll correct it. |
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//Pedaints don't want the complexity of a new punctuation
mark.// |
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I keep needing these as I ask a lot of questions, usually little ones in a series. The question mark would delimit things too much, I'd prefer something the scale of a comma, but looking like a question mark. |
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Next, we'll be wanting some sort of tonal question mark that
isn't purely for questions? For that interrogative tonally up-
shifted inflection? Or Australian? |
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