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Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde (~) adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (~.)
TIL - I’m an engineer & when I email colleagues, I will use ~ in a sentence to mean “about” - as in estimate, roughly, not quite equal to but close enough, etc.
Granted, the symbol is in a different place to denote sarcasm, but now I’m wondering how popular the usage of ~ is in the context of sarcasm, and have I ever confused someone because they only knew this context?
Interesting.
~ to mean around/about is very common. You're fine :)
I guess I've been unintentionally sarcastic ~5 times then
~ is already used in some instances in place of a period to denote cute and/or flirty.
Most of the time I use /s or :^) to highlight a contradiction between utterance and meaning*. Never for caustic speech; if it needs to be marked, it's pointless.
Not a big fan of tilde. I use it for a bunch of stuff already, like approximation (~20 = around 20; 20~30 = some quantity between 20 and 30) and drawn out speech (longcat is long~). The later is a weabooism, I know.
I'd be fine with any of those new graphemes in the text, if they caught on.
This is actually fascinating. Good bot!
I like the idea of the reverse question mark.
¿ I only have an upside down question mark in my phone characters though.
Well who thought that was a good idea ¿
Ha, where do you find such talents⸮
I'll start using some¡
I'm a fan of Sartalics - in concept. However, instead of it being a format, like italics or bold, it's a copyright-protected font that some jackass charges for.
š ...I vote the smiley S.