The savior of X Marks

**beloitpiper** · 16th January 10, 04:57 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...confusion.html

This will be SO useful here!!! (Notice the lack of SarcMark at the end of that sentence.)

**piperdbh** · 16th January 10, 05:17 PM

For some posters here ANY punctuation would be an improvement.

**NewGuise** · 16th January 10, 05:30 PM

Excellent

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**auld argonian** · 16th January 10, 05:46 PM

Well, gee, Greg....thanks for the news....I just can't imagine anybody here who ever writes anything with a sarcastic tone....

Best

AA

**Jordan** · 16th January 10, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Well, gee, Greg....thanks for the news....I just can't imagine anybody here who ever writes anything with a sarcastic tone....

Best

AA

Now i cant be sure without the apropriate punctuation but is their any chance that your being sarcastic here?

Jordan

**saharris** · 17th January 10, 05:10 PM

This is not a new idea. In the late medieval period, there existed a "percontation" point or mark, which was a backward-facing question mark - as ؟. It was used to indicate irony, sarcasm, rhetorical questions, or any other time that a sentence should be understood at a second level.

**Tobus** · 18th January 10, 09:53 AM

I love a good sarcastic remark! But if you have to use a special identifier to notify people that it's sarcasm, it destroys the whole idea of sarcasm. It's like having to explain a punchline... it ruins a good joke. I'd much prefer to let the sarcasm be lost on a person than to have to "dumb it down" with special sarcasm punctuation.