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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Well, again, I reserve !? for dialog only. The single and double exclamations are used very rarely and are more an effort to pump up the reader's adrenalin during high intensity scenes. Sorta how a story teller adds a little verbal punch to the story they're reading so it's more exciting. That's the only reason I do it, and again it's only used sparingly where most useful. [...]
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I'm not quite as tightly strung as Harry regarding this stuff (as you've probably noticed from our recent conversation regarding "done good"
), but funny things stick out for each of us. Interrobangs are something I've never gotten comfortable with. ... I was going to try arguing that since it has its own Unicode codepoint these days there should be nothing wrong with it, but then there are an awful lot of Unicode characters I'd never put into narrative text:-
I'm very unlikely to use Tibetan, although I probably shouldn't rule it out, you never know. But I was actually thinking about the Emoticons block that got added to the Unicode standard in v6. Just think how expressive we can be when we start adding smiley faces to our stories - to tell people when they should be laughing ... just like we do on forums
