Sarcasm Inc., a company that apparently exists, has developed a new punctuation mark to denote the use of sarcasm. The argument seems to be that if exclamations and questions have their own punctuation, why not sarcasm?! According to a press release,
“Statements have the period. Questions have the question mark. Exclamations have the exclamation mark. When you see the newest punctuation mark for sarcasm, you’ll know the writer of that sentence doesn’t literally mean what they’re writing; they’re being sarcastic.”
The fact that the punctuation mark itself, which is a spiral and a dot, would be ampersand-level awkward to write aside, sarcasm is already the lowest form of wit. If people can’t get it, the proper response is to make fun of them, not charge everyone else $1.99 for a somewhat disjointed solution to what I’m pretty sure no one noticed was a problem.
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