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

[simonf]

Will it look like an empty rectangle to people who don't have the punctuation mark installed? IF so, we could just use unicode's "white medium square" or some similar shape for the same purpose.

[jack]

I think their idea is that people will be sufficiently excited that small groups of them will mutually install the font, and be able to be sarcastic with each other, and it will spread organically from there.

Or, for all I know, mobile phone platforms facilitate sending messages with arbitrary fonts in, I don't know.

I mean, I've been telling everyone I've met about it for three days now. If I hadn't deliberately failed to remember the name of the company, it'd be arguably successful viral marketing :)