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.

Comments

[corrvin]

Actually, given the percentages involved, and the wear and tear on my keyboard, I'd rather have a mark that indicates I'm NOT being sarcastic.

[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.

[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?

[liv]

When I saw the way you capitalized the title of this post, I imagined a personality called Sarcasm Mark. Perhaps like a version of Kate who would give you directions in a sarcastic tone instead of a helpful robot secretary voice.