Questioning Question marks mid-sentence?
Here’s a blog post called, in an odd twist “Question Marks in Mid-sentence” from Nick Daws’ writing blog mywritingblog.com about using question marks mid-sentence in the case of thoughts and dialog. Basically, there’s no rigid rules on the subject, he goes over examples, and makes sense saying don’t use question marks mid-sentence. Though it’s not technically improper. So it’s OK, but it’s really not cool. You know, none of the cool kids are doing it, I know I don’t. Any thoughts? Anyone care to defend the mid-sentence question mark?
January 16th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I think mid-sentence question marks are perfectly logical. The question doesn’t always end the sentence. The first time I saw one, I was surprised, but then I fell in love with it. It can be used as a kind of comma for multiple questions:
Will you go to the party? and like it?