Synyster Graves

Question Marks Set Up Us The Bomb

by on Apr.14, 2011, under Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb

Now I do concur that this is a stupid thing to get mad about, but I have got to ask, why do people need the urge to suffix a question with hundreds of question marks? See back there, I only used one. One question mark gets your point across fine, anything more is ancillary in my opinion. Subsequent exclamation marks are fine, as that clearly defines a state of surprise, bewilderment or disgust. But again, over excessive use is just annoying. Why turn a perfectly normal question into the Riddler’s pyjamas?

Like when you get a text message and half of the content of it is question and exclamation marks. It’s nuts. I don’t want to spend half the time filtering through the ancillary punctuation just to try and ascertain what on earth message has been sent to me. It’s like spotting the odd words on the Rosetta Stone, you spend a lot of the time deciphering it when all you want is concise information, not the enigma code.

Yes maybe I’m being a bit picky here by being the grammar police but it’s just a general annoyance of mine that people have to use so many question marks. It makes you think, now many text messages out there have been doubled in price because some nitwit put in too many “?”s and spilled it into two texts instead of one? Yes question marks are evil in excess as they make phone providers more money, 12p at a time! One question mark is fine, it makes it a question. But two of three, it’s still a damn question but does it make it more severe? No! You just look like a plank! But I ask you this, in Spanish, they put an inverted question mark at the front of the question, do they put three at the front if they put three at the back? I severely doubt it.

I know this is a silly thing to get annoyed by but bad grammar makes everything look like a juvenile text message. (And for goodness sake teenagers on text messages, spell properly because “thnks” is the same as “thanks” but it’s just missing the “a”. Seeing that we live in an environment of predictive text, it’s easier to spell properly! And “innit” isn’t a word. Just stop it.)

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