Mixtures of Question Marks and Exclamation Points
Although it has now become rare, it is correct usage in Spanish to begin a sentence with an opening inverted exclamation mark ("¡") and end it with a question mark ("?"), or vice-versa, for statements that are questions but also have a clear sense of exclamation or surprise such as: ¡Y tú quién te crees que eres? ("Who do you think you are?!"). Normally, the four signs are used, always with one type in the outer side and the other in the inner side (nested)(¿¡Y tú quién te crees que eres!?, ¡¿Y tú quién te crees que eres?! )
Unicode 5.1 also includes "⸘" (U+2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG), which combines both in one glyph.
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Famous quotes containing the words mixtures of, mixtures, question, marks, exclamation and/or points:
“If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And yet these Rarities might be allow’d,
To Man, that sov’raign thing and proud;
Had he not dealt between the Bark and Tree,
Forbidden mixtures there to see.
No Plant now knew the Stock from which it came;
He grafts upon the Wild the Tame:”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
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Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.”
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—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
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—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)