The SarcMark, what a stupid bloody idea.

[Codiak]

Guess it's to aid the americans, irony is often lost on them too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6995354/Sarcasm-punctuation-mark-aims-to-put-an-end-to-email-confusion.html

and again

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7035351/SarcMark-inventors-make-thousands-from-sarcasm-punctuation-mark-in-first-week.html

 

[NSKlad]

Seems mildly useful.

My little brother is totally deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other, so despite using a hearing aid he still uses subtitles whilst watching TV. It could probably be mildly useful for him.

 

[Codiak]

Seems mildly useful.

My little brother is totally deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other, so despite using a hearing aid he still uses subtitles whilst watching TV. It could probably be mildly useful for him.

granted that IS a practical use, but not the main intention of this lame gimmick, for people who cant spot sarcasm in a stream of text.

 

[Robin Hood]

How's that gonna work if it's not an ascii character? Surely once people start using online you can just copy and paste it?

 

[Codiak]

well yes, you have to wonder how they are doing it and managing to keep control over it to be able to stil command a fee for it.

 

[DJForbes]

that will work

 

[spangley_special]

But there are plenty of characters on a keyboard. We could just make and random rarely used character imply sarcasm when added onto the end off a sentence.

the @ symbol could work, somthing like
The sarcasm symbol, yeah that's a real good idea@

Why does a whole new character need to be invented?

or we could surround sarcasm with slashes, like this
/The sarcasm symbol, yeah that's a real good idea\

Or just not be a moron and spot sarcasm due to it's context perhaps!?

 

[Codiak]

quite right!

 

[Collier]

Or just not be a moron and spot sarcasm due to it's context perhaps!?

That's a great idea!





Sarcasm or not?

 

[John C]

That's a great idea!

Hilarious Mr Collier.



(sarcasm?)