[justhackedme]

They're not real. It's a joke.

[pacaro]

People have been proposing some of these for a long time (nearly 400 years)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark

[justhackedme]

Yes. But that doesn't make it less of a joke.

[marcosdumay]

The best part of the joke is that we are standardizing at `/s`.

[3131s]

The interrobang is real, but that's the only one I think.

[justhackedme]

It's not real. The symbol might be attributed some meaning, but it's not real punctuation and definitely shouldn't be.

[colechristensen]

Define "real"

[xelxebar]

Wow. It didn't take long to go from punctuation to philosophy.

[dragonwriter]

It's been in use for about a half century; it's typically described as “nonstandard”, though given the absence of a standards body for English it's not clear what that means.

It's definitely “real” in the sense of being in actual use in the wild with a clear and well-understood meaning.

[482794793792894]

‽

[boondaburrah]

People use it; it's real.

[leichtgewicht]

Real or not the Sarcmarc would help sooo much.

[Spivak]

Don't people already use /s for this?

[leichtgewicht]

They do and I think its an argument for the sarcmark.

[majewsky]

On the other hand, I can type "/s" with my keyboard right now and it's not copyrighted.

[darklajid]

Still people type the ‽ all over this thread (can't handle Windows without the awesome WinCompose)…

[justhackedme]

No it wouldn't.

It'd help as much as a new meme on the internet helps the world.