Punctuation formerly used as a sentence or paragraph divider. It is still sometimes used in calligraphy. Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end. Armenian uses several punctuation marks of its own. The full stop is represented by a colon, and vice versa; the exclamation mark is represented by a diagonal similar to a tilde , while the question mark resembles an unclosed circle placed after the last
Irony punctuation Also it is common to use the combination of a parenthesis and a interrogation symbol as "(?" to mark irony A "SarcMark" symbol requiring custom computer font software was proposed in 2010. Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde (~) adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (~.), enthusiastic sarcasm (~!), and sarcastic questions (~?). The sports blog "Card Chronicle" has adopted this methodology by inserting (~) after the period at the end of the sentence. It has also been adopted by the Udacity