This past weekend a friend told me there is a new symbol designed to indicate sarcasm, so I looked it up. I found an article in the Telegraph, a UK-based online article, called "Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to email confusion". As an occasional user of sarcasm myself, I found it interesting.
The Brits practically invented sarcasm and understand it like no one else! Their movies and TV shows are riddled with it - and are wonderfully hilarious most of the time. AbFab anyone?
The Brits practically invented sarcasm and understand it like no one else! Their movies and TV shows are riddled with it - and are wonderfully hilarious most of the time. AbFab anyone?
These American's from Michigan who invented the SarcMark are making their trademarked punctuation mark available for download by you and I for a mere $1.99. Really. As Matthew Moore points out in his blog "Sarcasm punctuation mark? Who needs it ;-)", there are other ways that we have been indicating sarcasm quite successfully up till now.
What was more fun to read were the reader comments to the the blog and the invention, such as:
Sarcasm and irony work best when the reader is left guessing.
A sarcasm punctuation mark would remove the sting from sarcasm and be self defeating.
We all knew the Yanks didn't understand sarcasm and the SarcMark just proves it – ironically (oh s** I dont have a mark for that)
Well, I for one am *dying* to download the new SarcMark for $1.99 ... NOT ... lol ... ;-)
What do you think?
What do you think?
No comments:
Post a Comment