You'd be surprised how many people have thought so, Maria Popova writes on Brain Pickings: "Irony — along with its kin, snark and sarcasm — is an art form that thrives on the spoken word, relying on intonation and body language to distinguish it from the literal, so it's had a particularly rocky run translating into written language." An upside-down exclamation point was one 17th-century proposal. Others looked like a tiny triangle and a backwards question mark.
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