Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sarcasm mark: what a great idea

By question | Published: January 15, 2010
Sarcasm, Inc. is promoting a new type of punctuation, the sarcasm mark, which they are dubbing the SarcMark (that CamelCase is so hot right now).  For $1.99 you can purchase software which enables you to use the SarcMark on your computer.  The company maintains that sarcasm is nuanced, even in spoken conversation, and is an [...]
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Oxford Comma

By question | Published: January 12, 2010
New York-based hipster band Vampire Weekend has released a new album, Contra, and so I am reminded of Oxford Comma, one of the singles off their eponymous first album. Now, what exactly is an Oxford comma?  An Oxford comma (sometimes known as a serial comma), is the comma before the word ‘and’ in a list.  For [...]
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