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

[onyxlynx]

The sarcasmene ('70s-'80s) didn't take. (Looked like a tilde ~ surmounted by a dot. Not available as a character in Unicode, apparently [having just spent time looking at characters, quite a few of which have mysterious-to-me functions]. Not all that much used when people knew of it.)

Two bucks, eh?