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A sarcasm mark or sarcasm point identifies text as being derogatory or ironic. It is graphically identical to the inverse exclamation point, unicode U+00A1(¡).
In some cases, an exclamation mark in brackets is used to serve a similar purpose in English; more common, particularly in online conversation, is to use a pseudo-XML element: <sarcasm>Yeah, that's really going to work.</sarcasm> or a "rolling eyes" emoticon to indicate sarcasm.
The HTML 5 specification contains a reference to a fictitious "</sarcasm>" tag. [1]
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Example of use
Karl Marx uses the exclamation mark in brackets repeatedly throughout Das Kapital Volume 1. For example, in one instance, to ridicule Colonel Torrens: 'The problem is in no way simplified if extraneous matters are smuggled in, as with Colonel Torrens: "effectual demand consists in the power and inclination [!], on the part of the consumers, to give for commodities, either by immediate or circuitous barter..."'.[2]
Temherte Slaq, is the name for a mark used in the Ethiopic language to indicate an unreal phrase, and is used to express sarcasm. [3]
References
- ^ "HTML 5 Specification section 8.2.5.10 The "in body" insertion mode". W3C. http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#parsing-main-inbody.
- ^ Marx, Karl (1976). Capital Volume I. Penguin Classics. p. 264. ISBN 0-140-44568-4.
- ^ "A Roadmap to the Extension of the Ethiopic Writing System Standard Under Unicode and ISO-10646". 15th International Unicode Conference. 1999. 6. http://yacob.org/papers/DanielYacob-IUC15.pdf.
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