trivia name the 14 types of punctuation marks

[pres2032]

and no cheating by looking in a book or google!

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. here's my try

comma
colon
semicolon
quote, double
quote, single
apostrophe
question mark
period
exclamation mark
interrobang
dash
hyphen
parentheses
brackets

That's 14!

Though I realize now I left out ellipsis, so I have something one of too many up above - I'm assuming that there isn't any distinction between parenthese and brackets.

[SharonRB]

5. What's an interrobang?

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. That's the question mark with the exclamation point

?!

[SharonRB]

9. That's a combination of the two, not its own punctuation mark!

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. But it's used a single punctuation mark, and has now a name.

And, the double quote is technically just two quote marks, but is considered it's own symbol as well nowadays.

[SharonRB]

14. Never heard of it.

[Lone Pawn]

20. Technically, since you can't write two marks of the same function

next to one another (say, a comma and a period), and the interrobang is legit use, it's its own mark.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Aye, that's the side I fall down on

I think, then, we need to make room for 15 punctuation marks.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. I also think single quotes and double quotes should both be in the list

which would make it 16

(the official list I found just said 'quote marks'). But since they have different functions, they should be separated.

[pres2032]

26. only count as one

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. I know they only count as one. I was disagreeing with that ruling.

I don't think it makes sense.

[pres2032]

29. ah, ok

yeah, you're right though, though the only difference is that single quotes are used in the middle of double quotes.

[jpgray]

2. Period, comma, emdash, semicolon, colon, exclamation mark, question mark

Ellipse... uhh... shit. In the English language only?

[SharonRB]

3. Here you go, but I'm not sure if they all qualify -- I've got 15

Period
Question mark
Comma
Colon
Semi-colon
Parentheses
Em dash
En dash
Hyphen
Ellipses
Apostrophe
Double quotation marks
Single quotation marks
Brackets
Exclamation point

[pres2032]

15. quotes only count as one type

[SharonRB]

17. Then I've got 14 -- if all the others are correct.

[pres2032]

21. no, just checked, dash only counts as one

[pres2032]

24. you're the closest

dashes and quotes count as one each, you're missing one

[MrModerate]

4. 14 -- Gawd, I never counted.

I am going to cheat, however -- by looking at the keyboard!! HA HA!!

! Exclamation point
& ampersand
* asterisk
- n-dash
{} curly braces (equals 2?)
() parenthses (equals 2?)
[] square brackets (equals 2)
; semicolon
: colon
" double quote
' single quote or apostrophe (equals 2?)
, comma
. period
? question mark

-- I get 18

OK I'm cheating em dash (which I can't produce properly in this window since it doesn't take ASCII codes or pasted characters): 19!

[pres2032]

the & isn't one of them

[MrModerate]

11. I was gonna argue, but . . .

Yeah, the ampersand and the asterisk probably aren't "punctuation," per se.

[SharonRB]

8. Cheater --

I didn't think about ampersand or asterisk. Not sure if both of them or either of them are considered punctuation. I'm pretty sure ampersand doesn't, as it's just a symbol for the word "and," but I'm not sure about the asterisk. Probably not.

[pres2032]

10. yeah, asterisk isn't one of them

[soothsayer]

35. an n dash is longer than a hyphen and shorter than an em dash

so put hyphen in your list, too!

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I try:

apostrophe.
Colon.
Semicolon.
Coma.
Exclamation point.
Period.
Question Mark.
Quotations(?)
Brackets(?)


uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't know. :shrug:

[pres2032]

12. you're all good so far

:-) keep going!

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. Dash?

Hyphen.... that's all I got. HAHA :silly:

[Fridays Child]

18. uh...

period
question mark
exclamation point
colon
semicolon
ellipsis
virgule
open parenthesis
close parenthesis
apostrophe
double quotation mark
single quotation mark
dash
hyphen

edit: ha! comma

[soothsayer]

36. nice to see someone else knows the slash's real name...!

[AngryAmish]

19. tilde (sp?); oomlat (sp?)

[Lone Pawn]

25. Without looking at the other entries,

comma
period
ex.mark
q.mark
quote
doublequote
parenthesis
ellipsis
hyphen
en-dash
em-dash
colon
semicolon
brace
bracket
apostrophe
straight (mathematical) apostrophe
interrobang

[pres2032]

28. YOU GOT IT!!!

with a few extras thrown in there, but the 14 are all there!!

:party: :toast:

[SharonRB]

31. So, what was I missing?

Just the brace?

This entry appears to have quotes about three times!

On edit: Oops, I guess just twice -- one was the question mark. That brace was a tough one! It's used so infrequently.

[pres2032]

32. yeah, it was the brace

this person has all 14, with a few extras

[MrModerate]

30. ellipsis?

I'm not sure . . . well . . . maybe.

[Borgnine]

33. Damn.

And I just had all of them in my head from watching an episode of the West Wing where the same question was asked.

[pres2032]

34. no shit! really?

you were just watching "mr. willis of Ohio?" That's what i was watching when i was inspired to test DU. what a kawinky dink!

[deadparrot]

37. West Wing, anyone?

period, comma, colon, semicolon, apostrophe, quotes, parentheses, brackets, ellipses, question mark, exclamation point, dash, hyphen

blah...can't think of the last one...!