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Translingual
Punctuation mark
(!)
- Used to draw attention to a particular statement, or suggests that the writer thinks it is remarkable or nonsensical.
Despite his bizarre claims that all feminists are rapists (!), his paper has some salient points.
His official titles were: President, God (!) and the Master of Knowledge and the Arts.
1867, Karl Marx, chapter 3, in Das Kapital , I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals, Hamburg: Otto Meissner:Herr David Urquhart bemerkt in seinen "Familiar Words" über das Ungeheuerliche (!), daß heutzutage ein Pfund (£ St.), die Einheit des englischen Geldmaßstabs, gleich ungefähr 1/4 Unze Gold ist: "Das ist Fälschung eines Maßes und nicht Festsetzung eines Maßstabs.- David Urquhart remarks in his "Familiar Words" on the monstrosity (!) that now-a-days a pound (sterling), which is the unit of the English standard of money, is equal to about a quarter of an ounce of gold. "This is falsifying a measure, not establishing a standard."
2011, Agnete Elmose, edited by Lars Damkjær, Benedicte Kieler, and Karen Thygesen, Sprogets veje, 2 edition (in Danish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:Holdningen til den frækhed og kreativitet der ligger i brugen af slang, har ændret sig i positiv retning siden en dansk professor i 1866 under pseudonym (!) udgav "Bidrag til en Ordbog over Gadesproget og saakaldt daglig Tale".- The attitude of the audacity and creativity that lies in the use of slang has changed positively since a Danish professor in 1866 under a pseudonym (!) published "Contribution to a Dictionary of Colloquial Language and so-called Daily Speech."
- (especially closed captioning) Indicates a sarcastic tone of voice.
Yeah, that should work(!) (in English)
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