Posted on 01/17/2010 7:29:05 AM PST by Young Werther
(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Have you ever wanted to send an email or document with a little sarcasm, but didn't want to risk being misunderstood? The solution to this very real problem was announced through a press release Tuesday: Enter the sarcasm mark or "SarcMark," available under for $2.
Sarcasm Inc. of Washington Township, Mich., has released software for computer systems and Blackberry devices that can be downloaded for $1.99. The software provides a mark that looks like an open circle with a dot in the center; or an upside down "g" or "@" symbol. UPI posted a image of the mark .
The company Web site states the reason they developed the sarcasm mark was that "the written word has question marks and exclamation points to document those thoughts, BUT sarcasm has NOTHING!"
Paul Sak, of Sarcasm, explained in an email that the company is serious about the mark. "The SarcMark is a punctuation mark, designed with that in mind," wrote Sak. "It is roughly the size of other characters and with the SarcMark font downloaded, it behaves like any other font character. It specifically has a point or period incorporated in it, just like all other main punctuation marks: question mark ?, exclamation point !, colon :, semi-colon ; and of course the period."
(Excerpt) Read more at wwono.com ...
What genius! Having a typographic convention to substitute for the verbal cues to scarcasm! No one’s thought of that before! Why $1.99 is cheap for the results of such brilliance. /sarcasm
The money will be used for the USS Alaska fund for haiti.
I won't give it to anyone but I'll go to the Bahamas where I can keep an eye on Bill Clinton.
You know he's going to steal the money intended for haiti relief and President Bush will be blamed. Perfect plan for the left.
My fund will not be misused, I promise that any funds not spent for my trip will be used for Blackjack.
Thank you for your support.
Did Al Gore invent this too?
Look more like “The Mark of the Beast”
Um, what’s wrong with /s? /s
Here, as I understand it, is the FR approved </sarc> :
Type an ampersand - & then lt for first carat <
then /sarc.
An & and gt makes the other carat >.
"& lt" /sarc "& gt" = < /sarc>
same procedure will produce any "off switch," i.e., < /lame attempt at humor >
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