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A dialogue of mine contains the following sentence: "You fired all three of them?!" Trouble is, I'm not sure I've ever seen a novel that used a question mark and an exclamation point together...
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2019-12-14T20:45:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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System
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2019-12-08T12:44:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
A dialogue of mine contains the following sentence: > "You fired all _three_ of them?!" Trouble is, I'm not sure I've ever seen a novel that used a question mark and an exclamation point together - it's something I normally see in comic strips and the like. **Is using the two punctuation marks together only acceptable in certain forms of writing, or is it safe to use it in a novel without it appearing childish and/or obnoxious?** Using just the question mark doesn't really create the effect I'm aiming for.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-08-16T22:00:27Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 10