So You Googled My Blog: An Easy to Plagarize Post on Irony, Overflowing W/ Facts & Other Stuff to Make You--Teachers and Students-- Talk Smartly

It has recently come to my attention, than some people think I am "strange" or "odd" or in some extreme cases "Not Usual."

While meditating on this, it occurred to me that I may play some small contributing role to this impression. Specifically, it may be some people are unable to identify when exactly I am being serious; When I am using Irony; and When I am having one of my 'episodes.'

So to make things easier on everyone, I dug deep into literary theory and came up with an interesting solution to the question, "How does an individual know when an author, such as Justin, or a speaker, such as Justin, is being Ironic?"

Alcanter de Braham in the 1800's wrote a book antipcating modern problems of understanding Irony (and so, Justin) in which he argued that a new punctuation symbol should be introduced to clarify when exactly an ironic statement is being made.

That new punctuation mark is illustrated in the above picture which comes to us courtesy of the best scanner in the world. It is just an upside down question mark, but I think it is much easier to visualize since I have a posted that picture, which is totally copyrighted by conceptofirony.

If enough people think this would be helpful to them, I will consider employing such a punctuation to build the bridge from my heart to yours. I'm all ears. B/C I really do care.

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