’)Apparently some company in Michigan (the place best known for…you guessed it, sarcasm) has gone through the arduous task of creating the sarcasm mark, and offering a computer program (for $1.99) to provide the ability to use the holy grail of punctuation, the ‘SarcMark’. It’s apparently a half closed circle with a dot in the middle (very nice ¡!).
“Statements have the period. Questions have the question mark. Exclamations have the exclamation mark. When you see the newest punctuation mark for sarcasm, you’ll know the writer of that sentence doesn’t literally mean what they’re writing; they’re being sarcastic,” Sarcasm Inc. said in a release.
Good job guys! Your selfless act will pay for itself at $1.99 at a time. I am sure it wouldn’t have been possible to use something like ‘¡!’ instead (something that is freely available, which everyone should start using, by the way).
This new development should help all the people who think that the epitome of sarcasm is saying “Nice job!” to punctuate all their sarcastic gems with the sure to be epic SarcMark.
i love it¡!
have to agree with mad eyes. like we need to be told it’s sarcasm?
I want to know what it looks like. I’m tired of my text conversations ending in
i!
^ I like that one. Never saw it until now.
That’s because I just made it up. ;)
The actual SarcMark looks loopy…just do a search for it in Google.
well this is a fantastic marketing opportunity (!)
Please note my sarcasm punctuation used at the end of the sentence above, which has been around for decades, as used by the BBC in their subtitling. And it’s free!
OMG! like totally awesome!!!!!
maybe next time spend half a yr of your life developing something useful like an automatic ball scratcher!
I’m not sure if the ball scratcher remark was really sarcasm, but it would go to the top of my wish list on day 1
Wait a minute. When has there been a need for specific punctuation to identify sarcasm in written language? For that matter, when have writers ever tried to be sarcastic in their writings?
I’ve always thought that if a person needs to be told it’s sarcasm, they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Fantastic! Another piece of punctuation to be abused by the online community.
I will immediately purchase this product!¡
I think it’s just an excuse to inset a titty-looking thing into most texts.
We must clearly support this product.
On that note, shouldn’t there be a symbol that represents “not sarcasm?”
No…it should obviously be called ‘unsarcasm’ or ’sarcasanot’.