Trivia: What innovation was suggested by the Royal Spanish Academy in 1754?
Phonetic accents
Neutral vowels
Inverted punctuation
The tilde
The correct answer is Inverted punctuation
So why is this answer correct? : In 1668, Anglican philosopher John Wilkins suggested the use of an inverted exclamation point at the beginning of sentences in Spanish to denote irony, but it didn’t catch on. Almost a century later, in 1754, the Real Academia Española, or the Royal Spanish Academy, recommended the use of inverted question marks and exclamation points at the beginning of sentences in their book, “Orthography of the Castilian Language.” Spanish is still the only widely spoken language that uses these features.