Ever wish that you could shout and ask a question in the same sentence without having to use two different punctuation marks at the end of the sentence? Well, fear not! Because you actually can.

In 1964 a creative American named Martin Specktor decided that it would help advertising if you could show a surprise rhetorical question in one punctuation mark. Thus, the interrobang was born.

Actually, combined forms of punctuation have been around for a long time, including the interrobang. It just happened no one named it before then. Heck, where did you think we got the semi colon? ; it just looks like a comma and a colon had a baby! Awww, cute!

Of course, the interrobang isn’t popular…anywhere, really. It’s a completely useless punctuation when most people just use !? or forget about it all together. If more people started making use of the interrobang, maybe it would show up in school books, and be used so often that it would have to be taught. But would you really approve of reading a sentence with one of these on the end‽ I wouldn’t, at least not until they give us a more visible punctuation mark. It looks like a blurry, badly drawn P.

What are your thoughts? Are you going to find a new way to use this avant-garde punctuation mark?