OK, I use sarcasm at least 3 times a week, and I know people who use it every other sentence. But do we really need a new piece of punctuation just to denote sarcasm?
Probably not. I think it's kinda stupid. Part of the fun of using sarcasm in a text-based forum is to see how many people get it just based on the text. And paying money for a punctuation mark? Anybody remember the Interrobang? No? And that one was free.
The SarcMark would reduce scathing sarcasm to a level just above biting wit. What self-respecting supervillain would dumb down his text by inserting a punctuation mark that by definition dumbs down sarcastic sentences by making them obvious?
Yeah, this is a great idea, As good as surrendering stolen scientific equipment to the nearest superhero(Insert SarcMark Here)
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I've proposed an alternative, free of charge and already on your keyboard. The vertical bar and a dash. Like this: "|-"
ReplyDeleteIt has a nice finality to it and unlike its' commercial cousin, doesn't look like an @ that is performing a very athletic solo pose out of the Kama Sutra and enjoying it far too much.
Of course, I'm just a humble supervillain. It takes typographic genius to create a $2 snark and he will stand among Edison and Einstein as a genius|-
Computer King,
ReplyDeleteOne holds the sacred covenent of plausible deniability in all sarcasm. The "That's not how I meant it" clause. If you advertise snark, it loses it's in-joke currency to the In-The-Know.
Ah, Shakespeare probably had the same concerns, considering how flexible the rules of spelling and grammer were employed.
Great posts, keep up the Evil work,
-Lord Malignance