Irony mark Irony punctuation
irony mark designed alcanter de brahm in french encyclopedia 1905
the irony point (⸮) (french: point d’ironie) proposed french poet alcanter de brahm (alias marcel bernhardt) in 1899 book l ostensoir des ironies indicate sentence should understood @ second level (irony, sarcasm, etc.). illustrated glyph resembling, not identical to, small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. same mark used earlier marcellin jobard in article dated june 11, 1841, , commented in 1842 report.
hervé bazin in 1966 essay plumons l’oiseau ( let s pluck bird ), used greek letter ψ dot below same purpose. in same work, author proposed 5 other innovative punctuation marks: doubt point (), certitude point (), acclamation point (), authority point (), , love point ().
in march 2007, dutch foundation cpnb (collectieve propaganda van het nederlandse boek) presented design of irony mark, ironieteken: ().
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