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TIL that symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in print have been around since at least the 1500s (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Most of the time I use /s or :^) to highlight a contradiction between utterance and meaning*. Never for caustic speech; if it needs to be marked, it's pointless.

Not a big fan of tilde. I use it for a bunch of stuff already, like approximation (~20 = around 20; 20~30 = some quantity between 20 and 30) and drawn out speech (longcat is long~). The later is a weabooism, I know.

I'd be fine with any of those new graphemes in the text, if they caught on.