World, meet the exclamation comma -- the punctuation mark you didn't know existed, but that you almost certainly need in your life.
大家來歡迎感歎逗号，你可能不知道有這樣的标點符号存在，但生活中絕對會用得到。
The exclamation comma is, as its name suggests, a symbol that looks like an exclamation point, only with a comma instead of a period at its base. As the Grammarly blog noted this week, it's used just like an exclamation mark “to denote excitement, add flourish, and generally lend a statement a certain degree of emotion and emphasis,” but it's to be placed within sentences rather than at the end of them.
從它的名字“感歎逗号”就可以看出，這個标點符号外形像個感歎号，隻不過尾部的标點不是句點，而是個逗号。據文法部落格介紹，感歎逗号的用法和感歎号相同，“用于表現興奮、增強語氣、為一句話增添感情色彩并表示強調意味，”不過，感歎逗号應該用在句子中間，而不是句子結尾處。
For example:
“That velociraptor is so scary [insert exclamation comma] but don't worry, he's not going to eat you.”
例如：
“那個迅猛龍好吓人(插入感歎逗号)，不過别擔心，他不會吃了你的。”
The exclamation comma was reportedly created by American inventors Leonard Storch, Haagen Ernst Van and Sigmund Silber in 1992, who also lobbied for its widespread adoption. However, their patent for the symbol lapsed in 1995, and their effort to popularize it ultimately failed.
據稱，感歎逗号是由美國發明家李奧納·史托奇、恩斯特·範哈根和席蒙·施爾柏在1992年發明的，他們同時也大力遊說推廣該符号的廣泛使用。不過，他們為該符号申請的專利于1995年失效，而他們的推廣行動也以失敗告終。
Interest in the exclamation comma has surged this week after the Grammarly blog's post on it, but it's not the only obscure punctuation mark that deserves attention.
本周文法部落格釋出相關文章以後，人們對感歎逗号的興趣被激發出來。其實，感歎逗号并不是唯一一個值得被關注的過時的标點符号。
irony mark & sarcasm mark
For instance, there's the question comma (the exclamation comma's inquisitive cousin), the SarcMark (short for “sarcasm mark”), the irony mark and the wonderfully-named Interrobang (which looks like what would happen if an exclamation point and a question mark jumped into bed together).
比如，我們有問逗号(感歎逗号在疑問家族的表親)、諷刺号、反諷号以及有着好聽名字的疑問驚歎号(這個符号看上去像感歎号和問号一起躺在床上)。
Interrobang
英文來源：赫芬頓郵報
譯者&編輯：馬文英