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	Irony mark...?

ifonearth

8-4-2007 2:44 PM

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irony mark, punctuation, vocabulary

ifonearth says:

Keep in mind, this article is noted as "may need to be rewritten."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Irony_mark

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd8cd759-474d-4af1-b8b8-502a4b76eda1/F4E7A8F2-CDC8-4A5F-8758-E1E39797E8DA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059"><DIV>؟</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059"><H2><SPAN class="mw-headline">Examples</SPAN></H2>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular؟</LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059">The <B><A title="Irony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony">Irony</A> mark</B> (؟) (<A title="French language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</A>: point d’ironie) is a <A title="Punctuation mark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation_mark">punctuation mark</A> that purports to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. It is illustrated by a backward-facing <A title="Question mark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark">question mark</A>. An irony mark may sometimes be referred to as an <B>irony point</B>, <B>snark</B> or <B>zing</B>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059">Irony mark</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irony_mark&oldid=148152059"><H2><SPAN class="mw-headline">History</SPAN></H2>
<P>This mark was proposed by the <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</A> poet <A title="Alcanter de Brahm" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alcanter_de_Brahm&action=edit">Alcanter de Brahm</A> (alias <A title="Marcel Bernhardt" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel_Bernhardt&action=edit">Marcel Bernhardt</A>) at the end of the 19th century. It was in turn taken by <A title="Hervé Bazin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Bazin">Hervé Bazin</A> in his book <I>Plumons l’oiseau</I> (1966), in which the author proposes several other innovative punctuation marks, such as the <A title="Doubt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt">doubt</A> (<A title="Image:point de doute.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_de_doute.svg"><IMG width="13" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Point_de_doute.svg/13px-Point_de_doute.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_de_doute.svg" alt="Image:point de doute.svg" /></A>), <A title="Certainty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certainty">certainty</A> (<A title="Image:point de certitude.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_de_certitude.svg"><IMG width="13" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Point_de_certitude.svg/13px-Point_de_certitude.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_de_certitude.svg" alt="Image:point de certitude.svg" /></A>), <A title="Acclamation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclamation">acclamation</A> (<A title="Image:point d'acclamation.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_d%27acclamation.svg"><IMG width="14" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Point_d%27acclamation.svg/14px-Point_d%27acclamation.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_d%27acclamation.svg" alt="Image:point d'acclamation.svg" /></A>), <A title="Authority" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority">authority</A> (<A title="Image:point d'autorité.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_d%27autorit%C3%A9.svg"><IMG width="13" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Point_d%27autorit%C3%A9.svg/13px-Point_d%27autorit%C3%A9.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_d%27autorit%C3%A9.svg" alt="Image:point d'autorité.svg" /></A>), <A title="Indignation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indignation">indignation</A> (<A title="Image:point d'indignation.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_d%27indignation.svg"><IMG width="11" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Point_d%27indignation.svg/11px-Point_d%27indignation.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_d%27indignation.svg" alt="Image:point d'indignation.svg" /></A>) and <A title="Love" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love">love</A> (<A title="Image:point d'amour.svg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Point_d%27amour.svg"><IMG width="15" height="23" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Point_d%27amour.svg/15px-Point_d%27amour.svg.png" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Point_d%27amour.svg" alt="Image:point d'amour.svg" /></A>) marks. It was also featured in the art periodical <I>Point d’ironie</I> by Agnes b. in 1997.</p> <P>Its form is essentially the same as the late-mediæval <B>punctus percontativus</B>, which was used to mark <I>rhetorical</I> questions<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> — <I>i.e</I>. for Latin 'percontation'</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F4E7A8F2-CDC8-4A5F-8758-E1E39797E8DA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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