Hello,<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Elliotte Harold</b> <<a href="mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu">elharo@metalab.unc.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It occurs to me that one of the most frequently used nits of<br>pseudo-markup is to indicate sarcasm. For example,<br><br><sarcasm>Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a great president.</sarcasm><br><br>Should we perhaps formalize this? Is there any benefit to be achieved by
<br>adding an explicit sarcasm element to HTML?</blockquote><div><br><br>An interesting proposal.<br>
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Some other things to consider is some of the other ways people mark up sarcasm.<br>
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Some people mark it with a winking smiley. As in...<br>
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;-)<br>
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Or...<br>
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;)<br>
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Although, this tends to be when a person is being sarcastic to be funny or to tease someone.<br>
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I don't believe I've ever seen (or used myself) the winking smiley when
I'm being sarcastic AND I'm trying to be mean to the person, to in a
heated argument. (I.e., using sarcasm to "make a point".)<br><br>
Also... I've heard that Ethiopian Semitic languages and French actually has a punctuation mark for sarcasm.<br>
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