There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. (self.showerthoughts)

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A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence--especially dialogue--contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.

I can't think of a great example right now, but I know I've wanted punctuation that doesn't exist before. I've had moments where it would have been so useful to have a ";!" and a ";?" mark.

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[-] 667@lemmy.radio 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sounds a little like you’re describing an interrobang: ‽

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

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