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Invention of the End Mark of Punctuation

It's not easy to invent a mark of punctuation the icle sticks. History is filled with far more attempts at creating new marks, pretty much all of which failed. So what happened to spectr's invention? If it really is in the dictionary, effectively waiting to be used, why haven't we seen more in terro banks?

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