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Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
Would exclamation or question marks be intuitive if we'd never seen them before? Not that I think we should be adding more punctuation, but I don't know that we use '?' to question because it naturally looks like it's questioning something.
Upon looking at them, a dot intuitively ends a sentence. A dot with a line intuitively ends a sentence with emphasis, and a dot with a meandering line questions.
From that perspective a question mark really does indicate uncertainty and possibly a question.
https://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/bruce_font.html
http://anildash.com/2014/06/my-favorite-floppy-of-all-time.h...
https://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-...
Took me a while to figure out that "trigraph" was referring to some part of "??!?!!?!????" and not "WTF".