: Re: What punctuation would you invent to solve your issues? What punctuation is missing from English that might solve your writing issues? People may be able to come up with established ones

@Caterina108

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This is one thing I think English needs: the "Ammoc" -- it looks like a comma, but backwards.

It's used to indicate when one feels that for breath or speaking issues, a pause is needed, but it grammatically does NOT fit the rules of using a comma.

Often this is when the subject phrase is pretty long, so when speaking, one adds a break before the verb.

I often see a need for this is corporate-ese: speakers often pause after each phrase, whether or not it's a full clause that would have punctuation surrounding it.

This could also be used to indicate that small pause in dialog -- a little less intense of one than an em-dash or ellipses.

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