Irony marks: \they will radically transform your life\
Yes, the humble backslash would be a perfect way to indicate irony (or, as someone recently wrote me, "'irony,' as you call it"). The idea of a new punctuation convention denoting irony is not original--a friend and I took it from an article [LINK] in Slate. Sadly, the mark proposed was tremendously lame, a sort of short inverted exclamation point. Suggesting a pair of backslashes is kind of like telling Ogg that that thing of his with an axle through it should be a round disk instead of a rectangle.
Anyway, please adopt and popularize these irony marks if they suit you. On the general subject of irony, try to figure out why a local family law attorney thought this would be a good way to portray the people helping him get your kids back: "\We're perfectionists\ . . . we can't \afford\ to make mistakes."
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