Monday, February 20, 2012

Sarcasm Parentheses

Because tone of voice has no representation in print, the internet needs sarcasm parentheses. I propose that the characters%^ should bracket all sarcastic statements when we want to avoid accidentally being taken in earnest.

%^I bet you can't wait to run out and promote this idea.%^

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2010/01/a_mark_for_sarcasm_yeah_right.html