Sarcasm Mark

[jack]

Via MegaMole, http://megamole.livejournal.com/641176.html,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6995354/Sarcasm-punctuation-mark-aims-to-put-an-end-to-email-confusion.html, a company proposes a proprietary punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm. It's like the comedy buffet of the decade.

Comments

[simont]

evil!Dumbledore: I've never quite been clear on why such a weird punctuation mark is needed for that job. (Particularly one that's similar in proportions to an alphabetic letter and hence doesn't do a good job of visually separating the words it falls between.) What does it convey that the almost mainstream "evil-Dumbledore" wouldn't?

[corrvin]

(Apologies, I'm at work and only about half my brain is working right now.)

To me, attribute-noun means more "this noun happens to be attribute" and attribute!noun means "this noun has attribute as an essential part of its being."

On the other hand, that may be a personal reading only, and there may be no need for two meanings, or a better way to divide such meanings.

On the gripping hand, using attribute!noun avoids this hyphen issue.