- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:35:16 +0200
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:18:23 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote: >> It occurs to me that one of the most frequently used nits of >> pseudo-markup is to indicate sarcasm. For example, >> >> <sarcasm>Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a great president.</sarcasm> >> >> Should we perhaps formalize this? Is there any benefit to be achieved by >> adding an explicit sarcasm element to HTML? In Western typography, there is already a tradition to mark up irony with quotation marks: Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a ?great? president. I don't think a structural markup is required for something that has a punctuation tradition, just like we don't introduce structural markup for sentences (the punctuation, such as a full stop after the sentence, suffices). > Also... I've heard that Ethiopian Semitic languages and French actually > has a punctuation mark for sarcasm. There was such an idea, but it hasn't been widely adopted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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