{"id":597,"date":"2010-01-25T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T17:12:31","slug":"the-sarcmarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/the-sarcmarc\/","title":{"rendered":"The SarcMarc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bass-clef.png\" alt=\"Bass clef\" title=\"Bass clef\" width=\"30\" height=\"33\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-598\" \/>Ah, just what I\u2019ve always wanted \u2013 a punctuation mark for sarcasm!<\/p>\n<p>Yep, those of you who have mastered the art can now make it totally clear when you\u2019re being sarcastic in writing. The invention of American company Sarcasm, Inc. (interesting, since arguably <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/4384734.stm\">the British are masters<\/a> of the sarcastic comment), the <a href=\"http:\/\/02d9656.netsoljsp.com\/SarcMark\/modules\/user\/commonfiles\/loadhome.do\">SarcMarc<\/a> can be downloaded for US$1.99 and is available for Windows, Mac and Blackberry products.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know how to spot when you\u2019ve been sarc\u2019ed? Look out for something like an upside-down <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clef#The_bass_clef\">bass clef<\/a> (see the picture above). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, just what I\u2019ve always wanted \u2013 a punctuation mark for sarcasm! Yep, those of you who have mastered the art can now make it totally clear when you\u2019re being sarcastic in writing. The invention of American company Sarcasm, Inc. (interesting, since arguably the British are masters of the sarcastic comment), the SarcMarc can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,28,16],"tags":[28,564,562,563,561,72],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hieroglyphics","category-punctuation","category-technology","tag-punctuation","tag-punctuation-mark","tag-sarcasm","tag-sarcasm-punctuation-mark","tag-sarcmarc","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}