Vedymin
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I have learned recently about how some online communities have developed specific characters to denote irony. I feel something like this may be useful for this forum. Thankfully, there is an article on Wikipedia about this very topic! I am sharing the current page through edit history, so it wont change as the page updates.
Here are ideas from the page that I think would be best for these forums:
THIS IS SERIOUS.
Irony punctuation - Wikipedia
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Here are ideas from the page that I think would be best for these forums:
- Rhetorical questions in some informal situations can use a bracketed question mark, e.g., "Oh, really[?]". The equivalent for an ironic or sarcastic statement would be a bracketed exclamation mark, e.g., "Oh, really[!]".
- It is common in online conversation among some Internet users to use an XML closing tag: </sarcasm>. The tag is often written only after the sarcasm so as to momentarily trick the reader before admitting the joke.
- Another example is bracketing text with the symbol for the element iron (<Fe> and </Fe>) in order to denote irony.
- On the internet, it is common to see alternating uppercase and lowercase lettering to convey a mocking or sarcastic tone, often paired with an image of SpongeBob SquarePants acting like a chicken in the form of memes.[better source needed]
THIS IS SERIOUS.
5. After having written something sarcastic, the user might end the post or paragraph with the words "I'm being sarcastic".
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