Irony punctuation
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title:
Irony punctuation
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Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in written text. Written text, in English and other languages, lacks a standard way to mark irony, and several forms of punctuation have been proposed to fill the gap. The oldest is the percontation point in the form of a reversed question mark (βΈ®), proposed by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s for marking rhetorical questions, which can be a form of irony. Specific irony marks have also been proposed,
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Proposed form of notation used to denote irony or sarcasm in text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
date created:
2006-04-01T00:00:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:03:56Z
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