The mark originates in Ethiopic language and we at Open Sarcasm are leading a crusade to promote its usage worldwide.

What is the text symbol for sarcasm. Its an odd coincidence but NOT ironic that a 430-year-old mark may just find its usage in the 21st century thanks to modern technology. Implemented as a flipped version of Slightly Smiling Face on most Man Tipping Hand. Granted ended up being too long to type out.

Over time it has evolved to lose the angle brackets sarcasm and has subsequently been shortened to sarc or s. The inverted exclamation point is the simplest way to indicate sarcasm in plain text and with only a single character. Mark to emphasize a sarcastic.

Your comment brings up a great point. Im really enjoying the challenge youll know theyre being sarcastic. Sarcasm is an ironic or satirical remark tempered by humor.

As far back as the late seventeenth century when British philosopher and believer in aliens John Wilkins proposed using an upside-down exclamation point to denote irony there have been motions to create some symbol that can aid writers in signposting these types of sentences. For example lets say you see someone struggling to open a door and you ask them Do you want help If they reply by saying No thanks. The reverse question mark or irony mark is used to denote irony and sarcasm.

It is first recorded in English in 1579 in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser. Its a hat tip to coding methods such as HTML and XML. The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός sarkasmós which is taken from σαρκάζειν sarkázein meaning to tear flesh bite the lip in rage sneer.

It is common in online conversation among some Internet users to use an XML closing tag. Free for a limited time. The official easy-to-use punctuation.