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A sarcasm mark or sarcasm point identifies text as being derogatory or ironic. Although never known traditionally in Ethiopia, a sarcasm mark has been introduced in the Unicode set of Ethiopian characters Ethiopic languages, (ยก). Its use is not yet documented in writing Amharic or any other Ethiopian language.
It is not a standard form of punctuation in English. If a mark for such a purpose were proposed and became widely accepted, it would serve a similar purpose to the French irony mark in helping the reader to identify and interpret specific types of non-literal language.
In some cases, an exclamation mark in brackets is used to serve a similar purpose in English; more common, particularly in online conversation, is to use a pseudo-XML element:
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