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Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes a
by nicklaf 9y ago
Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
- broodbucket 9y agoWould exclamation or question marks be intuitive if we'd never seen them before? Not that I think we should be adding more punctuation, but I don't know that we use '?' to question because it naturally looks like it's questioning something.
- IncRnd 9y agoInteresting. I hadn't previously thought about the form of those punctuation marks. Upon looking at them, a dot intuitively ends a sentence. A dot with a line intuitively ends a sentence with emphasis, and a dot with a meandering line questions. From that perspective a question mark really does indicate uncertainty and possibly a question.
- justhackedme 9y agoThey're not real. It's a joke.
- 3131s 9y agoThe interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.
- justhackedme 9y agoIt's not real. The symbol might be attributed some meaning, but it's not real punctuation and definitely shouldn't be.
- colechristensen 9y agoDefine "real"
- xelxebar 9y agoWow. It didn't take long to go from punctuation to philosophy.
- 482794793792894 9y ago‽
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt's been in use for about a half century; it's typically described as “nonstandard”, though given the absence of a standards body for English it's not clear what that means. It's definitely “real” in the sense of being in actual use in the wild with a clear and well-understood meaning.
- boondaburrah 9y agoPeople use it; it's real.
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- leichtgewicht 9y agoReal or not the Sarcmarc would help sooo much.
- justhackedme 9y agoNo it wouldn't. It'd help as much as a new meme on the internet helps the world.
- Spivak 9y agoDon't people already use /s for this?
- leichtgewicht 9y agoThey do and I think its an argument for the sarcmark.
- alphaalpha101 9y agoOh yeah sure, marking sarcasm as sarcasm totally doesn't defeat the whole point of sarcasm or anything
- pacaro 9y agoPeople have been proposing some of these for a long time (nearly 400 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark
- justhackedme 9y agoYes. But that doesn't make it less of a joke.
- marcosdumay 9y agoThe best part of the joke is that we are standardizing at `/s`.
- gizmo686 9y agoWelcome to orthography.
- MengerSponge 9y agohttp://wondermark.com/new-shirt-unparsable-symbols/ http://wondermark.com/new-shirt-unparsable-symbols/
- yen223 9y agoThis is the same excuse I use to avoid learning Japanese. Just a bunch of unintuitive arbitrary characters!