Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde (~) adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (~.)
TIL - I’m an engineer & when I email colleagues, I will use ~ in a sentence to mean “about” - as in estimate, roughly, not quite equal to but close enough, etc.
Granted, the symbol is in a different place to denote sarcasm, but now I’m wondering how popular the usage of ~ is in the context of sarcasm, and have I ever confused someone because they only knew this context?
TIL - I’m an engineer & when I email colleagues, I will use ~ in a sentence to mean “about” - as in estimate, roughly, not quite equal to but close enough, etc.
Granted, the symbol is in a different place to denote sarcasm, but now I’m wondering how popular the usage of ~ is in the context of sarcasm, and have I ever confused someone because they only knew this context?
Interesting.
I’m just an idiot but I also use “~” to mean “about” or “around.” Been using it for many years and nobody has ever questioned it.
I will now start using it to close out all of my sentences~.
~ is already used in some instances in place of a period to denote cute and/or flirty.
I guess I’ve been unintentionally sarcastic ~5 times then