The Sarcasm Point
Writing in Slate, Josh Greenman argues that we need a new punctuation mark: the sarcasm point.
The other day I told my girlfriend I loved her. I did it on Yahoo! Instant Messenger. And the sarcasm just didn’t come across.
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Josh Greenman says he wants to create a new sarcasm point and, in almost the same ‘virtual breath’ he says that the English language musn’t evolve with Spanglish.
Why then, does he choose the Spanish inverted exclamation mark as his sarcasm point? He could’ve at least come up with a more original punctuation mark!
¡Adios!
Ronnie