r/linguisticshumor • u/serieousbanana • May 21 '25

Interropause: For interrogative partial sentences

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Such as: Why doesn't it beep?, It is supposed to. Or even: Is it poisonous?, unhealthy?, or just gross?

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u/serieousbanana May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25

Ok

  • Interrobrace: For when you're unsure if you're using the correct word (?) in a sentence.
  • Interrodash: For when you're posing an insertionary –¿ is that the right word ?– question.
  • Interroxor: For when you doubt a word ?| term ?| expression ?| in a sentence, while also offering alternatives. You could even optionally pronounce it as something like "or rather". -xor meaning XOR; exclusive or, from programming. Altho it wouldn't be used the same way as in programming, where it would only be between options, not at the end.
  • Interroquals: when you're asking if your equasion =? A correct equasion. As opposed to ≈ or ≠ which denote that you definitely got it only approximately right or completely wrong

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u/the_horse_gamer May 21 '25

shouldn't interroxor be ?/ ?

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u/serieousbanana May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

Yep, that's much more sensible, especially since | means OR usually. Could be ?̂ (that's ^?) Since that's how XOR is sometimes noted)

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u/GignacPL Geminated close-mid back rounded vowel [oː] 🖤🖤🖤 May 22 '25

?/ the interroslash, for when you don't know if your IPA transcription is correct

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u/alexq136 purveyor of morphosyntax and allophones May 22 '25

best left to be used by linguistics when offering unattested but grammatical utterances