I’m Being Sarcastic

January 20, 2010 at 11:58 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Doing most of my communication through the written word, I often face the problem of people not realizing that dude, I’m being sarcastic.

Sarcasm, Inc are here to solve the problem, as they introduced the SarcMark, the “sarcasm punctation mark”.

SarcMark

The idea is brilliant, but the application is poor, so I do not think it will take off any time soon (if ever, in its current form). Visually, it is bordering on hideous: it looks like a man trying to keep away his sneeze by holding his nose. It looks even worse written down, like a heart gone wrong. Someone needs to suggest an already existing glyph in system fonts that isn’t often used, like this one: ±.

Cool idea anyway. [Via, Hattip: Eddie]






  • http://farismadi.wordpress.com Faris

    Brilliant Idea..yet not allowed locally

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Faris, why not? :)

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  • http://farismadi.wordpress.com Faris

    The answer is within the new regulations of the public, private and personal media

  • Boy

    Some geek types have been know to use or
    using the end tag markup notation e.g. this sarcasm glyph looks amazing

    I am not sure how widely used that is!

  • http://haithamsaerie.blogspot.com Haitham

    No, u are actually acting as a bitch! That is all!

  • Boy

    Sorry about my earlier post, the tag based mark-up I used was striped, probably for fear of an injection attack. Unfortunately that has rendered the comment meaningless and obviously caused some offence! Ah well…

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Boy, yeah, I noticed that they were stripped, but I figured you used ? :)
    Don’t worry about the offended person, I think he was offended by me rather than you. Who knows though, he didn’t really give any explanation :)