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The Sarc Mark available for Linux?

On 26 January 2010 with 4 comments

Raise your hand if you’ve seen this little gem:

That’s the latest addition to the English language (The Guardian). Used like the rest of the Mark brothers (Mr Question Mark and his annoying sister Little Miss Exclamation Mark) Mr Sarc’s purpose is to denote sarcasm. Now instead of using various to-be-deprecated techniques such as the sarcasm tag </sarcasm> vague emoticons or my personal favourite "No shit, Sherlock", we have a standard to look towards that will appear whenever you hit ctrl-. (that’s full-stop). Of course you’d have to pay some US company 2USD to get it there (please, please don’t tell me you actually tried it just now).

I was wondering if anybody took the initiative to create a font with support for this on Linux – others might see it as a complete waste of time and resources but I can’t wait to write my next essay with this in it.

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4 Comments

hari says: (26 January 2010)

I think this is a complete waste of time, not to mention that there’s no standard in UTF-8 or ASCII way to have this character. It’s just like a smilie and probably is a waste of $2.

Besides, you either get sarcasm or don’t. You just spoil it by pointing it out, like a good joke ruined on explaining.

hari says: (26 January 2010)

Isn’t this sufficient :roll: ?

Dion Moult says: (26 January 2010)

Apparently I _do_ need this symbol to tell people that this entire article was sarcastic. Jeesh.

Although I’m also against it, hari, the fact remains that the internet is governed by idiots, and not even Google can change that.

hari says: (26 January 2010)

No I realized it was TIC. However, I was being serious. The fact that somebody actually sells this thing is an outrage on my sensibilities and you gave me the perfect place to do it… :)

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Born in 1992 (do the math), Male, and floating around the GMT+8 timezone. I do graphic design, some 3D work, and I'm currently working on a "soon" to be released 3D animated movie. I do some programming here and there and have become fluent in XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. Web development is my main area of computer expertise but I always have some weird and fantastic projects being juggled around my schedule. I like the concept of open-source and run Gentoo Linux. I play the piano and compose music. I hate this blog design but I'm never happy with any design. I am currently a student and working part time as a webdeveloper.

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