Punctuation Marks

I have now been ask to design a punctuation mark for sarcastic and either umpteen or ish. I began by researching punctuation marks used in different countries, such as Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Welsh, Afrikaan, Arabic and Slovakian. I learnt that symbols placed above or below a letter are used to hold a letter in a word when you are speaking and that punctuation marks such as question marks or quotations are placed at the beginning of a phrase. This tells the read what the sentence is about before they have got to the end.
While researching punctuation marks I came across these logo’s which have used these marks to create the logo.
The top image was designed in 2003 by Shinnoske inc, in Japan. It was designed for the breast team. It reminds me of emoticons used in text messages and emails.
The image below is the logo for the National Interpretation Service. It was designed in 2003 by Browns.