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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...