Like Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a lot of people just don't pick up on sarcasm. People have proposed various solutions, such as a new punctuation mark. Another is the use of reversed italics -- tilting text to the left instead of the right. Like this:
There's an online movement...well, a just a website, so far, to promote the use of a sarcastic font. Do you think that we should use it?
Link -via Dave Barry | Image: BBC
There's an online movement...well, a just a website, so far, to promote the use of a sarcastic font. Do you think that we should use it?
Link -via Dave Barry | Image: BBC
I'll stick with my all caps, quotation marks, and [/sarcasm] tag, followed with a "I was being sarcastic" comment after they take that comment seriously...makes me feel better knowing I'm smarter that way
thanks, but no thanks...
"our football team lost!"
"/Grand./"
it works for us, without the use of a heavy overhaul of a font. However, a font may be better for longer, more facetious remarks.
An entire font dedicated to sarcasm is just ridiculous.
Very hard to convey tone in pure text.
NYT Study results that whatever you write in email/online text, if there is any wiggle-room, people will interpret it in the worst way possible.