• queermunist she/her
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        1 year ago

        I like the snark mark! Snark is approximately equal to honesty, so really, is there a difference?~

        Also I like how it’s basically a little wink. Ov~

  • @PrincessLeiasCat
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    101 year ago

    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.

    • paol
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      21 year ago

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

    • @Etterra
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      11 year ago

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

    • @artifice
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      11 year ago

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

  • Lvxferre
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    71 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.

  • @maajmaaj
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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • @Darc
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    41 year ago

    This is actually fascinating. Good bot!

  • @XanXic
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    31 year ago

    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 ¿

  • @Etterra
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    11 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.