How do you indicate sarcasm in a text message or an email? If winky emoticons aren’t your thing, try left-leaning italics, as recommended by sartalics.com. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sartalics”
There’s a new movement afoot, Martha.
Yes.
People still are looking for a way to indicate sarcasm in text.
Oh, yeah.
Punctuation or they want to just some way to tell that a passage is sarcastic without having to say, he’s sarcastically said.
Exactly.
So at sartalics.com, they are promoting the idea of italics, only they lean to the left instead of to the right.
And if the italics lean to the left, then you know that the passage is sarcastic.
I kind of like that.
It might work, right?
But the thing is, all of these typefaces will have to be remade.
You’ll have to put a new set in there, right?
Oh, and I’d grown accustomed to your typeface.
That’s awesome and terrible.
It was awful.
Yeah, I know.
How do you indicate sarcasm?
Sometimes there’s an emoticon.
Sometimes it’s just the way that you write it.
Sometimes it’s just a thing that you wouldn’t say any other way but sarcastic like, yeah, right.
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