??
See also: Appendix:Variations of "?"
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Translingual
Punctuation mark
??
- A double question mark, used at the end of sentences as an emphasized version of ?, to make questions with more weight and importance, as if demanding an answer.
- How are you going to pay for this??
- (linguistics) Very questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason.
- 2006, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase, vol. 1, The Grammar of the English Tense System, →ISBN, page 6:
- A superscript question mark will be used similarly to indicate that a sentence or constituent is questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason. A double superscript question mark indicates an even higher degree of questionability.
I have never { worked / ?been working } on a dissertation
This time tomorrow I { will / ??am going to } be driving to London.
- A superscript question mark will be used similarly to indicate that a sentence or constituent is questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason. A double superscript question mark indicates an even higher degree of questionability.
- 2006, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase, vol. 1, The Grammar of the English Tense System, →ISBN, page 6:
Symbol
??
- (chess) Indicates a blunder.
See also
- !?
- ?!
- !
- ?
- !!