What is cool is the commonly used --especially by the texting generation --punctuation that has long gone without being formally addressed by it's proper name.
"What?!", you might say "I have been living my live with ignorance to a punctuation mark?! Has my education failed me?!"
If you haven't guessed the punctuation mark is the Interrobang: commonly written as ?!/!? but is actually the two marks written on top of each other as shown
It's not really a surprise that this mark has gone un-named when you look at how the texting-generation is simultaneously the most informed and the most ignorant generation and that this kind of information is slightly pointless but also part of the foundations of writing; but then again the generation doesn't really appreciate the foundations of learning and would much rather learn to pirouette with a 5 min instructional video than learn the second foot position.
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