- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:17:48 +0100
Elliotte Harold 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? Seems rather culturally specific. I found from living in Boston for a while, that a British sense of humour often seems harsher and more sarcastic to our gentle US cousins. So I wouldn't burn this into an element name. Some way of citing externally maintained lists might be nice, eg. see work of http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/charter ""The mission of the Emotion Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to investigate the prospects of defining a general-purpose Emotion annotation and representation language, which should be usable in a large variety of technological contexts where emotions need to be represented."" cheers, Dan
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