Frank and Ernest by Thaves for February 24, 2010

Like we need more than we’ve already got.

The interro-bang (a “?!” ligature) didn’t exactly sweep the world a few decades ago, and I don’t expect much better for someone’s recent attempt to invent a special punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm.

pschearer - Help me with this one. I’m not familiar with that one. What does it look like?

Davidf42: Google for “SarcMark” (or if you can’t remember that, Google for sarcasm and punctuation) and you’ll see. It’s a curl somewhat resembling an at-sign but with a dot in the middle..

I think it’s too late for new punctuation, although I would like to see improvements to current usage (like the more logical British rules for commas with quotes) and a bit more standardization across languages (the Americans, French, Germans, and Russians have different quotation marks). When I’m made King of the Universe, I’ll fix all that. (SarcMark).

pschearer - I’ve studied Hebrew and Greek (Koine) and I find that the ancients did just fine without punctuation marks at all. I think we have way too many.

Take the semi-colon - completely useless. In fact, even the colon could be easily replaced with a dash.

Too late!? Language is constantly changing! If people start using it, it becomes part of the usage.

sheesh pshearer kds dnt evn use vwls mst f th tme n u wnt thm t use prpr pnctshun?

How’s that King of the Universe coming along?

Ernie’s Grammar called and said you need to Laugh at this, guys. Try writing for a living. That editor will be really !!!!!!!!

HUH

creative writing taking a step too far

Thanks for the info on the SarcMark. Very interesting, and could be really useful (esp for me), but it looks too much like an @ sign. Back to the drawing board, me thinks…

p.s. Looking forward to pschearerworld… ;-)

The Frog Blog (link from Frog Applause) several weeks ago featured an extant sarcasm mark: “[!]”

Nice thing is, it’s intuitive and translates across all fonts.

There’s also the irony mark ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark ) which looks like a backwards question mark. I’m gonna start using interro-bangs and irony marks and see how many people I can confuse, bwahahahahaha :D

Like when Carly Shay from iCarly “invented” a number in order to help out with the homeowrk of Chuck, her brohter Spencer’s nemesis. The number was dirf (goes right between five and six; then there’s dirfteen, dirfty, etc.)