New... punctuation mark? in Off Topic

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Jan 23 2010, 7:18 am
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
#1 Jan 23 2010, 8:34 am
Yeah, let's just ignore the standard /s everybody. It has done a horrible job of denoting sarcasm in the past. Paying for something that nobody else can see is the only way.

/s
#2 Jan 23 2010, 8:36 am
This will be completely forgotten in a few months.
#3 Jan 23 2010, 8:45 am
I foresee that company doing very well@
#4 Jan 23 2010, 8:48 am
In response to Kuraudo (#3)
At what/where will they do very well?

/s
#5 Jan 23 2010, 9:47 am
In response to Danial.Beta (#1)
I prefer this tag:
</sarcasm>

People get you said.
#6 Jan 23 2010, 9:54 am
In response to GhostAnime (#5)
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.
#7 Jan 23 2010, 11:32 am
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.
#8 Jan 23 2010, 5:24 pm
In response to GhostAnime (#5)
GhostAnime wrote:
I prefer this tag:
</sarcasm>

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.
#9 Jan 24 2010, 12:04 am
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?
#10 Jan 24 2010, 9:23 am
I use no characters to denote sarcasm. I like to keep people guessing.
#11 Jan 24 2010, 10:07 am
In response to Stephen001 (#10)
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
#12 Jan 24 2010, 12:33 pm
In response to Rtbbvr (#9)
The ~ character is known as a tilde. (The more you know!)
#13 Jan 24 2010, 12:42 pm
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."