You may have heard that a company named SarcMark has trademarked a new punctuation mark intended to denote sarcasm. This sarcasm symbol looks like a backwards ampersand; I'm reluctant to reproduce it because they're apparently actually trying to sell it.
Although the free market dictates that one can charge what the market can bear, I find it both unconscionable and crass that this punctuation mark can only be purchased. There are an infinite number of all the other punctuation marks out...
Published on January 18, 2010 12:38