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Irony punctuation is any proposed form of notation used to denote irony or sarcasm in text. Written English lacks a standard way to mark irony, and several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and most frequently attested is the percontation point proposed by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, used by Marcellin Jobard and French poet Alcanter de Brahm during the 19th century. Both marks take the form of a reversed question mark, '⸮'.
Irony punctuation is primarily used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. A bracketed exclamation point or question mark as well as scare quotes are also occasionally used to express irony or sarcasm.
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Percontation point[edit]
The percontation point (), a reversed question mark later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a question that does not require an answer—a rhetorical question. Its use died out in the 17th century.[1] This character can be represented using the reversed question mark (⸮) found in Unicode as U+2E2E; another character approximating it is the Arabic question mark (؟), U+061F.
The modern question mark (? U+003F) is descended from the 'punctus interrogativus' (described as 'a lightning flash, striking from right to left'),[2] but unlike the modern question mark, the punctus interrogativus may be contrasted with the punctus percontativus—the former marking questions that require an answer while the latter marks rhetorical questions.[3]
Irony mark[edit]
In 1668, John Wilkins, in An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, proposed using an inverted exclamation mark to punctuate ironic statements.[4] In 1841, Marcellin Jobard, a Belgian newspaper publisher, introduced an irony mark in the shape of an oversized arrow head with small stem (rather like an ideogram of a Christmas Tree). The next year he expanded his idea, suggesting the symbol could be used in various orientations (on its side, upside down, etc.) to mark 'a point of irritation, an indignation point, a point of hesitation'.[5]
Irony mark as designed by Alcanter de Brahm in a French encyclopedia from 1905[6]
The irony point (⸮) (French: point d'ironie) was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias, Marcel Bernhardt) in his 1899 book L'ostensoir des ironies to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a glyph resembling, but not identical to, a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark.[3] The same mark was used earlier by Marcellin Jobard in an article dated June 11, 1841, and commented in an 1842 report.[7]
Hervé Bazin, in his essay 'Plumons l'Oiseau' ('Let's pluck the bird', 1966), used the Greek letter ψ with a dot below for the same purpose ().[8] In the same work, the author proposed five other innovative punctuation marks: the 'doubt point' (), 'conviction point' (), 'acclamation point' (), 'authority point' (), and 'love point' ().[9]
In March 2007, the Dutch foundation CPNB (Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek) presented another design of an irony mark, the ironieteken: ().[10][11]
Reverse italics[edit]
Tom Driberg recommended that ironic statements should be printed in italics that lean the other way from conventional italics.[12]
Scare quotes[edit]
Scare quotes are a particular use of quotation marks. They are placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used in the fashion that the writer would personally use it. In contrast to the nominal typographic purpose of quotation marks, the enclosed words are not necessarily quoted from another source. When read aloud, various techniques are used to convey the sense, such as prepending the addition of 'so-called' or a similar word or phrase of disdain, using a sarcastic or mocking tone, or using air quotes, or any combination of the above.
Temherte slaqî[edit]
In certain Ethiopic languages, sarcasm and unreal phrases are indicated at the end of a sentence with a sarcasm mark called temherte slaqî or temherte slaq, a character that looks like the inverted exclamation point (U+00A1) ( ¡ ).[13]
Other typography[edit]
Rhetorical questions in some informal situations can use a bracketed question mark, e.g., 'Oh, really[?]'. The equivalent for an ironic or sarcastic statement would be a bracketed exclamation mark, e.g., 'Oh, really[!]'.[citation needed] Subtitles, such as in Teletext, sometimes use an exclamation mark within brackets or parentheses to mark sarcasm.[14]
It is common in online conversation among some Internet users to use an XML closing tag:
</sarcasm>
. The tag is often written only after the sarcasm so as to momentarily trick the reader before admitting the joke. Over time, it has evolved to lose the angle brackets (/sarcasm
) and has subsequently been shortened to /sarc
or /s
(not to be confused with the HTML end tag </s>
used to end a struck-through passage).[15]Another example is bracketing text with the symbol for the element iron (
<Fe>
and </Fe>
) in order to denote irony.[citation needed] Typing in all-capital letters, and emoticons like 'Rolling eyes', ':>', and ':P,' as well as using the 'victory hand' dingbat / emoji () character to simulate air quotes, are often used as well[citation needed], particularly in instant messaging, while a Twitter-style hashtag, #sarcasm, is also increasingly common.[16]The use of the ':^)' emoticon has recently[when?] taken hold in a subset[who?] of internet users to punctuate facetious or otherwise sarcastic commentary.[citation needed] In many gaming communities, the word 'Kappa' is frequently used to display sarcasm as well as joking intent. This is due to the word acting as an emoticon on Twitch, a livestreaming site, where it has gained popularity for such purpose.[17]
It is also common to use the combination of an open-parenthesis and a interrogation symbol as '(?' to mark irony.[citation needed]
A 'SarcMark' symbol requiring custom computer font software was proposed in 2010.[18]
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 (~.), enthusiastic sarcasm (~!), and sarcastic questions (~?). The sports blog Card Chronicle has adopted this methodology by inserting (~) after the period at the end of the sentence.[19] It has also been adopted by the Udacity Machine Learning Nanodegree community.[20]
On the internet, it is common to see alternating uppercase and lowercase lettering to convey a mocking or sarcastic tone, often paired with an image of SpongeBob SquarePants acting like a chicken in the form of memes.[21][better source needed]
CollegeHumor jokingly proposed new marks called “sarcasticies” which resemble ragged, or zig-zagged parentheses, used to enclose sarcastic remarks.[22]
See also[edit]
- Inverted question and exclamation marks (¿¡)
References[edit]
- ^Truss 2003, p. 142
- ^'Interrogativus.png'. TypoWiki. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
- ^ abEverson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (April 10, 2016). 'Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-04-10.Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^Houston 2013, pp. 212–214
- ^Houston 2013, pp. 215–217
- ^Claude Augé, ed. (1897–1905). 'Ironie (irony)'. Nouveau Larousse illustré. 5. Paris. p. 329{{inconsistent citations}}
- ^Marcellin JOBARD, 'Industrie française: rapport sur l'exposition de 1839 – Volume II, p. 350-351.' French industry, report on the 1839 exhibition, Vol 2 pp. 350–351 (French text available on-line)
- ^Bazin, Hervé (1966). 'Plumons l'oiseau'. Paris (France): Éditions Bernard Grasset: 142{{inconsistent citations}}Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^Yevstifeyev, Mykyta; Pentzlin, Karl (Feb 28, 2012). 'Revised preliminary proposal to encode six punctuation characters introduced by Hervé Bazin in the UCS'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2016-05-07.Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^'Nieuw: een leesteken voor ironie' (in Dutch). Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB). 2007-03-13. Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^'Leesteken moet ironie verduidelijken' (in Dutch). Nieuwsblad.be. 2007-03-15. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^Houston 2013, p. 227
- ^Asteraye Tsigie; Berhanu Beyene; Daniel Aberra; Daniel Yacob (1999). 'A Roadmap to the Extension of the Ethiopic Writing System Standard Under Unicode and ISO-10646'(PDF). 15th International Unicode Conference. p. 6.
- ^'BBC Subtitle Guidelines'. bbc.github.io. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
- ^Khodak, Mikhail; Saunshi, Nikunj; Vodrahalli, Kiran (7–12 May 2018). 'A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm'(PDF). Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference: 1. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^Kunneman, Florian; Liebrecht, Christine; van Mulken, Margot; van den Bosch, Antal (July 2015). 'Signaling sarcasm: From hyperbole to hashtag'. Information Processing & Management. 51 (4): 500–509. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2014.07.006.
- ^David Goldenberg (21 October 2015). 'How Kappa Became The Face Of Twitch'. FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^'Nieuw leesteken waarschuwt voor sarcasme en ironie' [New punctuation mark warns of sarcasm and irony]. HLN.be (in Dutch). 18 October 2010. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^Mr_Hobbes (5 August 2014). 'The Guide to Card Chronicle's memes / inside jokes / quirks'. Card Chronicle. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^'Community Guidelines§A few things to consider'. MLND Wiki. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via GitHub.
- ^'Mocking SpongeBob'. Know Your Meme. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- ^'8 new and necessary punctuation marks'. College Humor. February 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
Sources[edit]
- Houston, Keith (2013). Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN978-0-393-06442-1.
- Truss, Lynne (2003). Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ISBN1-59240-087-6.
External links[edit]
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Apple users, if you updated your device to iOS 11.1 on Wednesday, Nov. 1, you've probably noticed the major glitch plaguing your keyboard — the one that's autocorrecting 'i' to an 'A' with a boxed-in question mark next to it. Eek! So annoying, right? Though there is a temporary fix while Apple works on remedying the bug, that hasn't stopped the internet from taking the pesky typing inconvenience and turning it into viral gold. Keep reading to LOL at tweets and memes about Apple's 'i' keyboard glitch that are so damn relatable.
First thing's first, let's talk about how to fix the problem before we start making fun of it. (The new emojis were so exciting, but this issue — emphasis on the 'i' — must be stopped.) Instead of completely avoiding the letter 'i' until Apple releases another update, you have a couple options. One, per Lifehacker, is to create a keyboard shortcut in 'Settings.' To give 'i' a new shortcut, go to 'General,' then tap 'Keyboard' and 'Text Replacement.' Select the plus sign to add a shortcut. Type a lowercase 'i' in the 'Phrase' section and an uppercase 'i' ('I') in the shortcut section. Hit save, and that's it. Any 'i' you type will now autocorrect to an uppercase 'i.'
Another option is to download a third-party keyboard in the meantime. Honestly, neither solution is perfect. However, they're only temporary since Apple is reportedly working on an official update. (Finger's crossed this happens sooner rather than later!) Not being able to type 'i' in peace has stirred up some controversy, the internet has morphed the bug into a wonderland of hilarious tweets and memes. Turns out, we all love typing in the first person and are lost without our lowercase 'i.'
'Until Apple fixes this phone issue Me guess Me will talk like this.'
Me thinks this is for the best.
In all seriousness, the alphabet is suffering.
Look, 'h' and 'j' are surrounded by a capital 'A' and a question mark inside a box. It just doesn't feel right and totally throws off the song I still shamelessly sing in my head for reference. Capital-a-question-mark-inside-a-box just doesn't have the same ring to it, TBH.
With the current keyboard situation, the iPhone logo should really look like:
Looks way less sleek, if you ask me.
Maybe it's a good thing we can't type the letter, after all?
(No I don't think so.)
But actually, it's pretty upsetting on a George Constanza level.
*Searches for a cookie*
It's not an easy time for Apple customers who updated to iOS 11.1. Older phone models tend to get a little buggy on new updates, and that's exactly what's happening, unfortunately. Apple's fix will likely come later this November with the release of iOS 11.2, meaning everyone will need to sit tight with the temporary fixes until then. Sigh. Here's to hoping everything will be back to normal soon. What is life if you can't text or tweet other people about yourself without a capital 'A' and a boxed-in question mark popping up? I'll tell you: It's frustrating!
But hey, at least iOS 11.1 brought us more than 70 new emojis to play with. Maybe instead of 'i', we can all reference ourself as emojis. For instance, I'd totally text people the new mermaid emoji in lieu of 'i.' Considering it's possible to have entire text conversations in emoji, I'd say we can add it to our list of (permanent?) fixes to Apple's unfortunate glitch.
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