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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by justhackedme on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:02PM (#15438984)
They're not real. It's a joke.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by pacaro on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:04AM (#15439249)
People have been proposing some of these for a long time (nearly 400 years)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark

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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by justhackedme on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:18AM (#15439316)
Yes. But that doesn't make it less of a joke.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:28PM (#15443086)
The best part of the joke is that we are standardizing at `/s`.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by 3131s on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:05PM (#15438995)
The interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by justhackedme on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:09PM (#15439014)
It's not real. The symbol might be attributed some meaning, but it's not real punctuation and definitely shouldn't be.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by colechristensen on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:23PM (#15439066)
Define "real"
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by xelxebar on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:53AM (#15442266)
Wow. It didn't take long to go from punctuation to philosophy.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by dragonwriter on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:49PM (#15439182)
It's been in use for about a half century; it's typically described as “nonstandard”, though given the absence of a standards body for English it's not clear what that means.

It's definitely “real” in the sense of being in actual use in the wild with a clear and well-understood meaning.

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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by 482794793792894 on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:31PM (#15439102)
‽
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by boondaburrah on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:13AM (#15439288)
People use it; it's real.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by leichtgewicht on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:10PM (#15439019)
Real or not the Sarcmarc would help sooo much.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by Spivak on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:28PM (#15439090)
Don't people already use /s for this?
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by leichtgewicht on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:40PM (#15439145)
They do and I think its an argument for the sarcmark.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by majewsky on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:16AM (#15439947)
On the other hand, I can type "/s" with my keyboard right now and it's not copyrighted.
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by darklajid on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:05PM (#15447006)
Still people type the ‽ all over this thread (can't handle Windows without the awesome WinCompose)…
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Re:A collection of non-standard punctuation marks by justhackedme on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:12PM (#15439034)
No it wouldn't.

It'd help as much as a new meme on the internet helps the world.

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