[whatwg] sarcasm

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Tue Apr 24 16:19:11 PDT 2007


Alexey Feldgendler wrote:

> In Western typography, there is already a tradition to mark up irony 
> with quotation marks:
> 
> Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a “great” president.

There's an even stronger tradition to mark quotes with quotation marks, 
and yet we have the q element.




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