Bangorrhea!

[Redsgirl]

Apparently I am not alone, this is a recognised affliction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23781044

[outragous76]

so much better than a full stop yo!

[Tal]

The pedants, they must ped

[technolog]

I met the interrobang for the first this week and I'm embarrassed to say I quite like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

[Tal]

Head to Chess Thread. We love interrobangs there.

[Redsgirl]

I met the interrobang for the first this week and I'm embarrassed to say I quite like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

Noooooo technolog! They can't do that! You can't combine the two and make it all tidy and acceptable.
Where's the freedom of expression??
What good is it if I don't get to choose the ratio of exclamation points to question marks?!?!  Or the order!??!

[Tal]

That's all well and good, but what does !??! actually mean?

[Redsgirl]

That's all well and good, but what does !??! actually mean?

Well, it all depends on the context, but as a general guide ? before ! in any number usually conveys
'are you sh***ing me?' where as ! before ? usually means more like 'you have got to be sh***ting me'
Kinda obvious, I thought. 

[kinboshi]

Let's not mention 'Literally' on this thread.  Tal might literally implode...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define:+literally

[Redsgirl]

Let's not mention 'Literally' on this thread.  Tal might literally implode...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define:+literally

Whoaa there Kinboshi, I'm all for mashing up the rules a bit but how can this be?

2.Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling.

You can use literally to describe something that is not literally?

There aren't enough exclamation marks or question marks for me to express how this feels.

[kinboshi]

It's a bad one, isn't it!?

Apparently, there are examples of 'literally' being used figuratively going back over 100 years (e.g. http://www.dickensfellowship.org/content/literally ).  Not happy about an incorrect usage becoming accepted as a correct use though.  It's a similar thing to 'factoid'.

[Claw75]

awesome‽

[Redsgirl]

It's a bad one, isn't it!?

Apparently, there are examples of 'literally' being used figuratively going back over 100 years (e.g. http://www.dickensfellowship.org/content/literally ).  Not happy about an incorrect usage becoming accepted as a correct use though.  It's a similar thing to 'factoid'.

I was reading Stephen Kings latest the other day and he used 'factoid' in the context of a small fact.
I stifled the urge to contact his publishers.

This also reminds me of a girl I knew who had apparently only ever heard the phrase 'that's original' said sarcastically, so genuinely thought 'original' meant something that had been done many times before.
She refused to be told otherwise 

[Redsgirl]

awesome‽

Have you got that on your pc keyboard Claw?

[Claw75]

awesome‽

Have you got that on your pc keyboard Claw?

sadly not!  I was thinking it should become standard, but actually I hope it doesn't as  I too, like to express myself through my chosen order and number of punctuation marks.  I generally go for question mark first, then alternating, sometimes with an additional couple of exclamation points at the end if I feel that part of the emotion needs a little more weight.