The latest issue of Reader’s Digest features an article about punctuation marks we may not know about but might want to use more frequently. The one that caught my attention is called the interrobang, a combination of a question mark and exclamation point used to stress excitement in a question instead of using clusters of both marks together. Its cousin is the percontation mark, a reverse question mark designed to designate a sentence a rhetorical question. A third interesting mark is called the certitude point, used to denote absolute finality and conviction.
Many applications online do not use these marks, but probably the best places to bring them back to life would be social media. Imagine looking at a snarky sentence in a post, and seeing a snark mark–a dot and curlicue–which leaves no doubt as to the user’s frame of mind. There is a mark to denote irony, to encourage skepticism and to express open-hearted love. Our online crack sites are the perfect places for these distinctive marks.
Here is an article from Mental Floss to explain more:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12710/13-little-known-punctuation-marks-we-should-be-using
If you agree, let’s storm social media and bring these marks back to life.
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