This is an interrobang. It should have become a punctuation mark, but it never really caught on. Maybe it will in the future, but probably not. The keyboard is pretty well standardized by this point, and people seem happy enough to say, “He hooked up with Sheila?!?!??!”
I think about the interrobang a lot when I am thinking about the habit we have, as a species, of assuming that the world in which we live was entirely inevitable—that we as contemporary humans are just along for the ride. But the truth is we all make up the world together as we go. We choose ?! over the interrobang. I know it feels like someone else has made this decision for us. But the truth is that together, we are making the decision right now.
#just saying that if I had this symbol on my keyboard I would use the hell out of it
My best friend has interrobang earrings, which is just one reason why she is better than you.
Also, working as a legal transcriber, I find myself yearning for an interrobang more often than you’d think. There are moments where it would come in incredibly handy. For example:
HER HONOUR: Is that your argument?
…does not really convey the combined disbelief and contempt of:
HER HONOUR: Is that your argument?!
(Also necessary for certain judges: ~sarcasm tildes~)
