I’ve been talking about this thing for a couple years now, and it’s actually starting to become a thing. It’s really starting to take off. I’m sure many of you have seen the sarcation point in use¡
For those of you who do not know here is the definition:
sar·ca·tion
ˈsärˌkāSHən/
noun
NORTH AMERICAN informal
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A punctuation mark (¡) indication a sarcastic phrase or series of phrases.“This is totally awesome¡”
I’m going to see what I can do about having it added to the US standard layout keyboards¡ The iPhone can do it by holding the exclamation point button. It’s U+00A1 in unicode.
If more people use it in textual communication there will be far fewer misunderstandings. Comments like “That’s awesome¡” or “That’s nice¡” mean something totally different than “That’s awesome!” or “That’s nice!”
I expect everyone to start using this. (Notice I’m serious, there is no sarcation point)