Question mark

The question mark [ ? ] (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. The question mark is not used for indirect questions. The question mark glyph is also often used in place of missing or unknown data. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+003F ? QUESTION MARK (HTML ?).

History

Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin of York. Truss describes the punctus interrogativus of the late 8th century as "a lightning flash, striking from right to left". (The punctuation system of Aelius Donatus, current through the Early Middle Ages, used only simple dots at various heights.)

This earliest question mark was a decoration of one of these dots, with the "lightning flash" perhaps meant to denote intonation (or a tilde or titlo, named after the Latin word titulus, as in " ·~ ", such as many wavy or more or less slanted marks used in many medieval texts for denoting various things such as abbreviations, which would later become various diacritics or ligatures or modified letters used in the Latin script), and perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes. Over the next three centuries this pitch-defining element (if it ever existed) seems to have been forgotten, so that the Alcuinesque stroke-over-dot sign (with the stroke sometimes slightly curved) is often seen indifferently at the end of clauses, whether they embody a question or not.

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Growth–share matrix

The growth–share matrix (aka the product portfolio, BCG-matrix, Boston matrix, Boston Consulting Group analysis, portfolio diagram) is a chart that was created by Bruce D. Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group in 1970 to help corporations to analyze their business units, that is, their product lines. This helps the company allocate resources and is used as an analytical tool in brand marketing, product management, strategic management, and portfolio analysis. Analysis of market performance by firms using its principles has recently called its usefulness into question.

Overview

To use the chart, analysts plot a scatter graph to rank the business units (or products) on the basis of their relative market shares and growth rates.

  • Cash cows is where a company has high market share in a slow-growing industry. These units typically generate cash in excess of the amount of cash needed to maintain the business. They are regarded as staid and boring, in a "mature" market, yet corporations value owning them due to their cash generating qualities. They are to be "milked" continuously with as little investment as possible, since such investment would be wasted in an industry with low growth.
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    Question mark (disambiguation)

    A question mark is a type of punctuation mark.

    Question mark or ? may also refer to:

    People

  • Seung-Hui Cho or "Question Mark", Virginia Tech massacre shooter
  • Matthew Lesko or "question mark guy", American author and infomercial host
  • Rudy "Question Mark" Martinez (written "?"), singer in the American band Question Mark & the Mysterians

    • Popular culture

  • ? (film), a 2011 Indonesian film
  • ?: A Question Mark, a 2012 Indian film
  • "?" (Lost), an episode of Lost
  • ? (Bersuit album), 2007
  • ? (Enuff Z'nuff album), 2004
  • ? (Neal Morse album), 2005
  • ? (Nena album), or the title song, 1984
  • ? (EP), an EP by Modwheelmood, 2003
  • ?, an album by Eason Chan, 2011
  • "? (Modern Industry)", a song by Fishbone from Fishbone

    • Science and technology

  • Minkowski's question mark function, a mathematical function
  • Polygonia interrogationis, the Question Mark butterfly
  • ?, the Unicode replacement character
  • ?, the name of an aircraft which set the flight endurance record and demonstrated the feasibility of aerial refueling in 1929
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    Well a question mark is,
    It's a little wavy line above a dot or two upon your page, or
    A question marks you and you
    Wonder as it sinks into your memory
    Which you don't have, no, it has you
    All for your love; only for you
    All for your love; only for you
    Well I almost died then,
    And I'm sure I would have, if I hadn't had you with me
    All the time
    But I'm old enough now, I can suckle on my own and I can,
    I can find the ones to see me through
    All for your love; only for you
    All for your love; only for you
    You don't know what you do to me and you don't know
    What to do about it
    I am all I can be now, I guess I'll have to stay this way
    Say, I pray you'll say that you will love 'til the end and I will see
    Say I pray you will love me 'til the end I know, I know
    Well a question mark is, it's a little wavy line above a dot or two
    Upon your forehead
    A question marks you and you wonder as in sinks into your memory




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