Chirenjenzie discussion

I've been going through some of my old books and some use !? as a single punctuation (Twilight, for one), though I was recently told that it is frowned upon to do so. I'm curious what everyone's opinion is on this matter.

Is it used in YA dialogue? If so, then anything goes! :-D At least that's my take on it.

I think if it conveys what it needs to convey then its fine. I'm sure their are those that would disagree with me though.

Use of double punctuation is frowned upon. And really??!! you've seen it in books? How did that get past the editors?!

I use that type of punctuation continually in personal correspondence, but it jars me as amateur when seeing it in a book.

There is a single punctuation mark called the interrobang, which is a question mark and exclamation point together.

Seriously?! Only you would know that!

I can't remember where I've seen it, although I'm 99% sure that it was in a YA book somewhere, and I was so involved in the storyline I glossed right on over it.

When, and who, invented the interrobang, and how in the heck did you know about it?

Oh yes, it's repeatedly used in the twilight books, and I've seen it other places. Not sure off the top of my head where else.

Another thing that Twilight does, that I have never seen anywhere else, that I know of, is italicize only part of a word. Such as an emphasized s at the end of a word.

Elizabeth wrote: "Seriously?! Only you would know that! "

Martin K. Speckter conceptualized the interrobang in 1962. And how I knew about it?? Google. I don't remember what I was researching when I ran across it. But I think it is a fabulous punctuation mark -- it's just not used.

Kiersten wrote: "Another thing that Twilight does, that I have never seen anywhere else, that I know of, is italicize only part of a word. Such as an emphasized s at the end of a word."
While Twilight may do it, that seems just weird to me and again to me amateur.

And yes, the double punctuation is used, but I don't like it in a book.