On the first day of spring, of the year that fears of global warming have reached a fevered pitch and calls for a sarcasm font have fallen mostly on deaf ears; it is snowing.
Your cries for a way to denote your sarcasm have NOT fallen on deaf ears.
Sarcasm is best transcribed as a punctuation mark, which will work in plain text (for SMS) and handwriting and won't require every platform to support a new font.
Heh. I thought the same thing when I heard it was snowing. I was in Colorado though, so it seemed normal. Then I realized that this must be the reason the scientists and such are calling for it to be called "global climate change" since us hot-climate folk don't understand how it can be COLDER. Hahahahaha!
Your cries for a way to denote your sarcasm have NOT fallen on deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteSarcasm is best transcribed as a punctuation mark, which will work in plain text (for SMS) and handwriting and won't require every platform to support a new font.
The punctuation mark is: ¡
More info at http://opensarcasm.org.
I have read your idea and have decided that it only works for short sentences.
ReplyDeleteHow do I convey an entire paragraph or god forbid an entire post to be choreographed in a sarcastic fashion?
Heh. I thought the same thing when I heard it was snowing. I was in Colorado though, so it seemed normal. Then I realized that this must be the reason the scientists and such are calling for it to be called "global climate change" since us hot-climate folk don't understand how it can be COLDER. Hahahahaha!
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