Sarcasm is not necessarily an invention of the English language but Britons have defined it as our own, using it in subtle ways to leave a recipient unsure of whether they have been insulted until two ...

To all the millions of people out there who have never written an email, I hope I can properly explain how difficult it is to compose sarcastic phrases in our daily correspondence without a ...

Michigan company says SarcMark should be official punctuation mark for sarcasm. Jan. 18, 2010— -- Watch out, :-) Stand aside, j/k. There's a new kind of punctuation in town and it wants sarcasm ...

The US firm Sarcasm Inc has already secured a sizeable windfall from the humble idea – a dot within a spiral that can be downloaded for $1.99 – and hopes to make the mark a standard feature of email ...

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A Michigan company announced the release of software Tuesday that introduces new punctuation to the typed word: The sarcasm mark. Sarcasm Inc. of Washington ...

A new punctuation mark indicating sarcasm has been invented and is currently being sold through software online by a Michigan-based company. The Sarcasm Inc. company states on its website it is ...

How many times have you had the conversation about how difficult it is to express irony in e-mails? About how difficult it is to convey tone of voice in a short text? How many apologies have been made ...

Now a US firm has come up with an ingenious solution to this very real problem – a new item of punctuation. The SarcMark, as it has been named, is designed to be used in the same way as an exclamation ...

Don’t you hate it when sarcasm goes unnoticed? There you are, making a perfectly strong, sarcastic remark, only to have it fall flat because the person to which the remark was directed didn’t ...

“Thou shalt not kill.” That’s one of the most highly touted (and universal) of the Ten Commandments. But Mark Twain points out a major problem with this, on of God’s most basic commandments: “It is ...