Interrobang

I decided to counter Aaron's dumb post with a much more intellectual post: what is the interrobang?

Unfortunately, I must admit that Aaron first introduced me to the topic... but that is irrelevant. Anyway, the interrobang is an English punctuation mark (while it is non-standard). It's use is to combine the exclamation and question marks into one! It has been greatly popularized recently by people instant messaging, when they say things like "How could you do such a thing?!", except when people say that they are actually using improper grammar, as they should be using interrobangs. I think that where it should be used is fairly obvious.

In my searching I found two other cool and very real punctuation marks:


The irony mark ؟

This one is actually French (so you can use it on your French tests and the teacher shouldn't get too mad at you). It was suggested and adopted by some French poet in the 19th century, though it is very rarely used. I'm sure its use is obvious as well.


⁂The asterism⁂

This one is kind of like the therefore sign, but it has asterices instead. It is supposed to be sued to draw attention to something, like a chapter in a book, or something important.

I am sure that these punctuations marks, while not used much elsewhere, will be properly implemented by us bloggers to keep them from dying out.


Ducator meus nihil agit sine lagunculae leynidae accedunt؟

EDIT: Here are the Wikipedia pages for the three punctuation marks with pictures of them on them, in case these ones don't work:

Interrobang
Irony Mark
Asterism