What do people mean to convey when they use extra question marks???

[Gidney N Cloyd]

Drives me up the wall. Extra exclamation points don't bug me, it just seems like the writer is extra excited, but how can you be extra question-y?

[DS1]

1. Odd and even ?s have different meanings

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Are you being serious?

You've never asked a question with more enthusiasm, more curiosity, or maybe even with more outrage than others?

You don't translate "Seriously?" and "Seriously???" any differently?

[slide to the left]

3. I think more than one

means it rhetorical

[Mutley]

4. More intensity???

I especially like this one:

?!?!

[laheina]

6. It means that they are asking. very. hard.

or LOUDLY. ;)

And I too, am fond of the ?!?!

[Mutley]

8. What did you call me?!?

:D

[leftofthedial]

5. I don't know!!!

[LaraMN]

7. It just means that they're good at question marks.

!!!

[Left Is Write]

9. I don't know? That their question is very important?

That they really really don't know the answer? That the more question marks they use, the more they convey their ignorance of the answer????

What about people? Who use a questioning inflection? On every phrase or sentence they speak?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. It's like in Shakespeare

It's asking a question about the question. for example:

"To be or not to be? Is that a question?"

Simplifys to "To be or not to be??"

And the answer is "To be or not to be? (Yes,) (t)hat is a question."

[DrDebug]

11. Unsupported special characters??

Say Peace in all languages! The people of the world prefer peace to war and they deserve to have it. Bombs are not needed to solve international problems when they can be solved just as well with respect and communication. The Internet Internationalization (I18N) community, which values diversity and human life everywhere, offers "Peace" in many languages as a small step in this direction.

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http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Degree of incredulousness

A friend tells you he used to be a used-car salesman. Your reaction: "Wha...?"

A friend tells you he used to be a Republican. Your reaction: "Whaa...??"

A friend tells you he used to be a woman. Your reaction: "Whaaa...???"

(Three is considered to be the limit; any more would be superfluous. Same goes for exclamation points.)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. OK, so there's always a 1:1 ratio of trailing nouns to Q-marks?

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Good eye!

:thumbsup:

That's a personal preference, but I think it's proper, if only for aesthetic purposes. It lends rather a symmetry to the incredulity.

[reyd reid reed]

20. Vowels.

:hide:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. You're right of course. Sorry for the brain glitch.

[Ross K Smith]

15. Confusion???? n/t

[Orsino]

16. Can you honestly tell me that...

...one question mark is enough for this picture???

[Deja Q]

17. How would I know???????????????????????

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. The degree of puzzlement.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. I use it sometimes.

Generally it roughly translates into "Dude, what the fuck...."