[whatwg] sarcasm

Charles Iliya Krempeaux supercanadian at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 13:35:04 PDT 2007


Hello,

On 4/24/07, Arne Johannessen <arne at thaw.de> wrote:
>
> Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> > It occurs to me that one of the most frequently used nits of pseudo-
> > markup is to indicate sarcasm.
>
> I do like the idea of formalising that -- but considering the way the
> sarcasm element occasionally is used in emails, we may find it
> necessary to make its start tag optional...</sarcasm> ;-)
>
>
Yeah... like the winking smiley, the lone "</sarcasm>" seems to be used more
like a punctuation mark (than markup) at times.


See ya

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    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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