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Those who think that the initial exclamation mark ( ¡ ) is a prerogative of the Spanish language are mistaken. In 1668, John Wilkins suggested using that same mark to mark any statement that should not be interpreted literally, which, in short, he defined as the punctuation mark of irony . It may seem paradoxical that two centuries later, […]https://world.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/apple-emojis.jpg680293