Sarcasm Mark

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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.

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[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 :)