socal78
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Sarcasm punctuation mark introduced to avoid misunderstandings
'Trying to convey sarcasm without offending the recipient can be tricky with online communication methods, but a US company thinks it has a solution.
The "SarcMark" is being introduced as a way to imply sarcasm in the same way a question mark is used to add a querying tone or an exclamation mark is used to indicate strong feelings, surprise or even shouting.
The suggested use for the SarcMark is to stick it at the end of a sarcastic sentence or comment in order to avoid any misunderstandings over the tone of the missive.
The symbol ? described by The Telegraph as "a dot inside a single spiral line" ? can be used on PCs, Macs, and some mobile devices and is conjured up by pressing the control key and the full stop button.
The symbol costs $1.99 to download which seems like really good value... now where are those control and full stop keys?'
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/30852/sarcmark-punctuation-mark-introduced-language
(... I keep referring to this as a "SnarkMark" by accident.)