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    Quote Originally Posted by Verhofstadt View Post
    I liked it so much I bought three.

    I've used them already.. sarcasm is getting expensive.

    O dear !!

    They are negotiating rights on the squiggle as we speaketh. Sure we'd never have had alphabets if corporates were
    doin' their thing a whiles back.

    (Though I'd buy the letter F , if I could have , it's quite a versatile wee letter)

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    Quote Originally Posted by ang View Post
    Thanks dot, it is pretty, probably one of those must have's,yes I think it will catch on.
    The rhetorical question mark stuck for 20 years, from 1580 to 1600.

    In the 1580s, English printer Henry Denham invented a "rhetorical question mark" for use at the end of a rhetorical question; however, it died out of use in the 1600s. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it.[6]
    Rhetorical question - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Now who would have thought that ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvotingMachine0197 View Post
    The rhetorical question mark stuck for 20 years, from 1580 to 1600.



    Rhetorical question - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Now who would have thought that ?
    Thanks! I much prefer squiggles and alphabets to failed stupid policies and politicos.



    indeed, I am unsure if I prefer the traditional A in anarchism or just want to raise the
    frigging black flag at this point.
    : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism

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    Quote Originally Posted by dot View Post
    The wee squiggle at link is known as a 'Sarcmark' and is (apparently) downloadable for $1.99 ! This allows the lazy interweb user convey sarcasm; and the reader to understand that the comments were written *sarcastically', thus pocket-lining the industrious and aiding the tenuous user : Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to email confusion - Telegraph
    What a fantastic idea, that looks like the greatest investment I could ever have, where has that squiggle been all my life?
    All my problems have been solved, all hail the 'Sarc mark' the greatest invention ever.

    BTW why would anyone pay for it when you can just copy and paste it for free? ( ¿ )

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