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

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    Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
    Well, gee, Greg....thanks for the news....I just can't imagine anybody here who ever writes anything with a sarcastic tone....

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

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    He kens na where the wind comes frae,
    But he kens fine where its goin'.

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    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.
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