Sarcasm Mark
Jan. 18th, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackVia 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-01-18 12:30 pm (UTC):) I know what you mean, and I sometimes deliberately get into that :) But in truth, if I say "no, actually I do literally mean: $thing" it generally does come across as honest if very foot-in-mouth, because if I were being sarcastic, there would be more art to it.