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A ridiculouſly pretentious and obſolete method of writing the letter "s", when it does not occur in word-final poſition. Its uſe may lead to the poſſibility of abſolute bullſhit being interpreted as intelligent, ſenſible proſe.

The origin of the ligature "ß" was the letter ſequences "ſs" and "ſz", where the two letters later merged into the iconic ſymbol of the German language.
Caſe in point, not café in point.
Related Words
S S.A.L. S-A-T S.O. s.t.p. s'more S.E.A.L. S&M s.t.m. S.A.W.
The parenthetical S functions as an abbreviated version of the terms “seriously”, “for serious”, and “I am being serious here” for use in electronic-text based conversation. Where it is usually difficult to decipher whether or not the sender of a text based message (IM, email, cell phone text, etc.) is being sarcastic or playful, the use of the (S) aides the message sender in communicating to the message receiver that the information being transmitted is, in fact, the real deal.
The new Nick Lachey album is actually pretty good (S).

(S) by bralikzandr September 6, 2008
What you get when you click on Urban Dictionary in Quick Searches in
Firefox bookmarks...
Oh just type "slang something" in the address bar and quit moaning...
%s by RobL November 27, 2004
Because sarcasm can have a hard time coming across in the written word, this is a take on html coding and it means that anything that came before it was intended as sarcasm.
(on an online forum)

John: Why doesn't sally like me?

James: Because she really hates guys that are muscle heads. /s
[/s] by Insidivs March 22, 2011
All garbled up
:S
:S by irhyknow October 13, 2009
" š " makes the same sound as "sh" in "poSH" . Cyrillic equivalent is the letter Ш
šah - chess, шах
š by toto9 August 4, 2009