Sarcasm mark

A sarcasm mark or sarcasm point identifies text as being derogatory or ironic. Although never known traditionally in Ethiopia, a sarcasm mark has been introduced in the Unicode set of Ethiopian characters Ethiopic languages, [cite web
url=http://yacob.org/papers/DanielYacob-IUC15.pdf
title=A Roadmap to the Extension of the Ethiopic Writing System Standard Under Unicode and ISO-10646
authors=Asteraye Tsigie, Berhanu Beyene, Daniel Aberra, Daniel Yacob
work=15th International Unicode Conference
year=1999
page=6] (¡). Its use is not yet documented in writing Amharic or any other Ethiopian language.

It is not a standard form of punctuation in English. If a mark for such a purpose were proposed and became widely accepted, it would serve a similar purpose to the French irony mark in helping the reader to identify and interpret specific types of non-literal language.

In some cases, an exclamation mark in brackets is used to serve a similar purpose in English; more common, particularly in online conversation, is to use a pseudo-XML element: Yeah, that's really going to work. or a "rolling eyes" emoticon to indicate sarcasm.

References

External links

* [http://www.slate.com/id/2111172 Introducing the Sarcasm mark] from [http://www.slate.com/ Slate]