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Wednesday 5 January 2005

Ironic, Lionic, Zionic

The above statement is ironic. Those who know me know how much I love that glorious scraping from the bottom of a beer barrel.

But now Americans, famous for their sense of irony and sarcasm¡ are suggesting that it's such a wonderful thing that we need a punctuation mark to indicate when it's being used.

The irony being, of course, that those who know irony don't need one. I for one don't want this private party spoiled. It's yet another attempt to remove something that us Brits can feel superior about. Fight the introduction of the Sarcasm Point! Keep your exclamation marks the right way around!

Of course, he could have been joking.

Posted by dustbinman at 13:43 | Permalink

Comments

a sarcasm point? dumb dumb dumb.

Posted by: peg on January 5, 2005 05:42 PM

You just have to hope he forgot to use one of his sarcasm marks at the end of the sentence in which he proposes their use.
Btw, have you ever considered rebranding yourself as marmiteman? I think it works. (sarcasm mark needed there? I'll leave it to you to decide.) x

Posted by: MJ on January 5, 2005 07:03 PM