one may deliver a line of sarcasm, knowing it has a small chance of offending the receiver, at this point the receiver it may have offended delivers his or her own sarcasm back causing the deliverer to think they actually did offend the receiver. Really, the receiver was not offended at all but they have just now out sarcasticized this deliverer.
A proposed typeface style to indicate that the selected text should be read with a sarcastic tone or within a sarcastic context (i.e. Bold, Underline, Italics, Sarcastics).
Currently indicated by enclosing the sarcastic word or phrase between two "\" marks. See examples below.
Since my friends are so slow, I have to write everything in sarcastics, so they won't be hopelessly confused, or worse yet, misunderstand me:
1. NBC is the \greatest\ thing to ever happen to the NHL.
2. \I just love getting voicemail from my doctor telling me the test results were positive.\
3. \Marry me.\