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What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system? (self.neography)
submitted 11 months ago by Darthjaffacake to c/neography
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Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I'm sureπŸ˜…, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

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[–] jordanlund 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sarcasm font.

Bold, Italic, Underline, Sarcasm.

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

sArCAsM fOnT eXiStS, iT jUsT lOoKs BaD

[–] jordanlund 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

See, now I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. :)

It would be fun to have an Italic font that leans the other way.

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem like leanback characters exist for any ASCII or text encoding system. You might be able to develop ligatures to perform the function, but then there's the issue of getting anyone to utilize it.

[–] jordanlund 1 points 11 months ago

Well, we are working under the hypothetical of re-working the whole system, so why not? ;)

Hmmm... If you had a reversed font, italicized it, then reversed it again? πŸ€”

[–] Darthjaffacake 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly yeah, I feel bad when people can't tell I'm being sarcastic on the internet because anything ridiculous I would say sarcastically is something another insane person might believe.

[–] Anamnesis 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We kinda "do" this with "scare quotes."

[–] mojofrododojo 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

yeah but "lots" of "people" don't understand how any of those conventions work. "Some of them have no fuckign idea" what to put the quotes around, and others are trying to communicate some"thing" altogether stranger with their 'choices'.

I'm a big fan of a sarcasm font, hell make it reverse italic, I could get down for that.