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They're not real. It's a joke.
by justhackedme 9y ago
They'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`.