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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
Ella me pregunta «¿qué hora es?» – 'She asks me, "What time is it? " ' Question marks must always be matched, but to mark uncertainty rather than actual interrogation omitting the opening one is allowed, although discouraged: [15] Gengis Khan (¿1162?–1227) is preferred in Spanish over Gengis Khan (1162?–1227)
Irony mark as designed by Alcanter de Brahm in a French encyclopedia from 1905 [9] Another irony point (French: point d'ironie) was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias, Marcel Bernhardt) in his 1899 book L'ostensoir des ironies to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is ...
The interrobang (/ ɪ n ˈ t ɛr ə b æ ŋ /), [1] also known as the interabang [2] ‽ (often represented by any of the following: ?!, !?, ?!?, ?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point) [3] and the exclamation mark (also known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang").
The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, №, No., or no.), [1] [2] is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles.
Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as [] ⓘ and [] ⓘ, except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe] diphthong.
Caret notation is a notation for control characters in ASCII.The notation assigns ^A to control-code 1, sequentially through the alphabet to ^Z assigned to control-code 26 (0x1A).
Many Spanish school pupils memorize the following list: a, ante, bajo, cabe, con, contra, de, desde, durante, en, entre, hacia, hasta, mediante, para, por, según, sin, so, sobre, and tras. The list includes two archaic prepositions — so (“under”) and cabe (“beside”), and it excludes vía (“by way of, via”) and pro (“in favor of ...