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Irony punctuation

Though in the English language there is no standard accepted method to denote irony or sarcasm in written conversation, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and frequently attested are the percontation point, — also known as an ironicon — invented by Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, furthered by Alcanter de Brahm in the 19th century. Both of these marks were represented visually by a backwards question mark.

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    Of course, if we had this, we wouldn’t get hilarious moments...politicians...
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    I have actually wondered about this for a pretty long time. However as said, people should be able to know when sarcasm...
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    Shouldn’t it be this ~~~
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    If every keyboard had a...point button, there would be 68.7% less fighting on

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