One of my friends got on MSN, and told me there's a new punctuation called the "SarcMark." It's a mark used to show sarcasm. It costs 2 dollars to download, so I reckon we could just use the "@" sign at the end of sentences so that we can enjoy the SarcMark, and still have 2 dollars!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6995354/ Sarcasm-punctuation-mark-aims-to-put-an-end-to-email-confusi on.html
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 Jan 23 2010, 5:18 am
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This will be completely forgotten in a few months.
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I foresee that company doing very well@
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The problem with the full </sarcasm> is two fold. First, many websites block anything with a <> around it as an attempt to block HTML. Second it takes a lot longer to type. /s gets the point across and only takes to keystrokes.
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Sarcasm marks have been around for at least half-a-century, in English, and other languages have had similar punctuation marks since the middle ages. This is nothing new, or useful.
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GhostAnime wrote:
I prefer this tag: I concur. Also: Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to email confusion I would have figured by now, between forums, IRC and text messaging, that we'd have managed to do that by now... And we have! Though, it's a pretty good scam. I can see a lot of people being stupid enough to buy it... and more people being smart enough to copy the logo and shrink it in Paint.NET or Photoshop. | |
I actual use this odd little whatchamacallit ~
Is it weird though, that when I speak aloud my own sarcastic comments, I do it in the stereotypical 'Mhmmm You got that right honey/oh no you didn't!' black lady voice? | |
I use no characters to denote sarcasm. I like to keep people guessing.
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Stephen001 wrote:
I use no characters to denote sarcasm. I like to keep people guessing. OH MY WAS STEPHEN BEING SARCASTIC? The world may never know. /tootsie pop | |
i think the makers of this sarcasm mark were being sarcastic when they made it. "yeah, we totally just made a new punctuation mark for sarcasm. it's going to be so useful."
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/s