AN INTERROBANG



Yep, that's all we need. A new mark of punctuation. This innovation combines the question mark with the exclamation point and looks an awfully lot like a capital P with a period under it.



Some techy must have come up with it. Perhaps it looks ok on a computer screen, but handwritten, it would be a nightmare to distinguish. Do we really need it anyhow? It reminds me of teenage girls who used to write for me and end almost every sentence with the exclamation point. "But it was so important," they would counter.

Does the proposed interrobang really alter the meaning that much!? What!? Sorry, it doesn't work for me. Even switched around it doesn't work. W/ for with or w/out I can live with. Even LOL, IMHO, BFF--all work for me. I mean all you have to do is look to the military for abbrevs that don't, for the most part, hinder communication. But trying to discern an interrobang from a misprint from a capital P to sloppiness, just slows down the communication process.

So to those who change things in grammar (I'm sure by now Mr. Wariner and Mr. McCrimmon are passe), I plead "Don't!?!!