Aug. 2nd, 2018

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PERCONTATION POINT

Haggard Hawks


@HaggardHawks 8/1/2018

In the late 1500s, the English printer Henry Denham proposed using a reverse question mark, ⸮, called a PERCONTATION POINT to indicate that a question was rhetorical and so didn’t require an answer.

So a rhetorical question mark.

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