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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde () adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (.)

    TIL - I’m an engineer & when I email colleagues, I will use ~ in a sentence to mean “about” - as in estimate, roughly, not quite equal to but close enough, etc.

    Granted, the symbol is in a different place to denote sarcasm, but now I’m wondering how popular the usage of ~ is in the context of sarcasm, and have I ever confused someone because they only knew this context?

    Interesting.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years 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; 2030 = 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.

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    This is actually fascinating. Good bot!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I like the idea of the reverse question mark.

    ¿ I only have an upside down question mark in my phone characters though.

    Well who thought that was a good idea ¿

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I like the sarcasticies.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I'll start using some¡

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm a fan of Sartalics - in concept. However, instead of it being a format, like italics or bold, it's a copyright-protected font that some jackass charges for.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)