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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde (~) adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (~.)

TIL - I’m an engineer & when I email colleagues, I will use ~ in a sentence to mean “about” - as in estimate, roughly, not quite equal to but close enough, etc.

Granted, the symbol is in a different place to denote sarcasm, but now I’m wondering how popular the usage of ~ is in the context of sarcasm, and have I ever confused someone because they only knew this context?

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

~ to mean around/about is very common. You're fine :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

~ is already used in some instances in place of a period to denote cute and/or flirty.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

I guess I've been unintentionally sarcastic ~5 times then

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Most of the time I use /s or :^) to highlight a contradiction between utterance and meaning*. Never for caustic speech; if it needs to be marked, it's pointless.

Not a big fan of tilde. I use it for a bunch of stuff already, like approximation (~20 = around 20; 20~30 = some quantity between 20 and 30) and drawn out speech (longcat is long~). The later is a weabooism, I know.

I'd be fine with any of those new graphemes in the text, if they caught on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is actually fascinating. Good bot!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the idea of the reverse question mark.

¿ I only have an upside down question mark in my phone characters though.

Well who thought that was a good idea ¿

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ha, where do you find such talents⸮

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll start using some¡

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like the sarcasticies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

š ...I vote the smiley S.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan of Sartalics - in concept. However, instead of it being a format, like italics or bold, it's a copyright-protected font that some jackass charges for.