{"id":1349,"date":"2010-01-15T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/like-we-need-another-punctuation-mark.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:35:56","slug":"like-we-need-another-punctuation-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/like-we-need-another-punctuation-mark.html","title":{"rendered":"Like We Need Another Punctuation Mark&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5446209\/new-sarcasm-punctuation-mark-makes-punctuation-cool-again?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 208px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/7\/2010\/01\/thumb160x_sarc.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know if this is legit, but <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5446209\/new-sarcasm-punctuation-mark-makes-punctuation-cool-again?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">this post on Gawker.com<\/a> is claiming we have another punctuation mark in the stable.  The symbol at right is supposed to indicate sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>This is fantastic news.  In a world where only 0.62% of high-school students can tell an m-dash from a hyphen, where the average student graduates from college without ever correctly using a semi-colon, we desperately need some other abstraction to misuse or ignore.<\/p>\n<p>In that rare case where sarcasm isn&#8217;t obvious and you just can&#8217;t bring yourself to drop in a winking emoticon, this is the symbol for you.   And should it fail to catch on for its intended purpose, given its uncanny resemblance to an upside-down &#8220;@&#8221;, it would always be <s>useful<\/s> fun as a character to have in your email address.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is legit, but this post on Gawker.com is claiming we have another punctuation mark in<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/like-we-need-another-punctuation-mark.html\" title=\"Read Like We Need Another Punctuation Mark&#8230;\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}