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who knew? Post date  02.24.2007, 12:47 PM

The following exchange occurred this morning during a long IM session with a close friend and colleague:

dripping sarcasm.jpg

Turns out there is an actual punctuation mark in French to indicate irony which you can read about in this wikipedia article.

irony marks.jpg

I don't actually use emoticons because i find them so aesthetically uninteresting, so i love the idea of a new class of punctuation marks evolving to take the place of the smiley face in all its saccharine implementations.

Posted by bob stein at 12:47 PM | Comments (8) | TrackBack
tags: IM , chat , emoticon , writing