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National Grammar Day
Good morning, comrades, and happy National Grammar Day!
Please celebrate National Grammar Day responsibly, by reading the POV on this holiday offered by the Language Log, one of our favorite blogs on writing and grammar, and by following our usage guide when using your favorite old-but-new punctuation mark.
Ok, and you can also watch the crazy Grammar Day video, if you really, really must:
notes from the first weekend of the revolution
Good morning, comrades, and happy Monday¡
Start your week with a taste of punctuational freedom by catching up on our progress since the momentous First Thursday of the Revolution.
I. Progress in the Twitter Theater
Highlights from the battles fought by the Sarcasm Liberation Army on the front lines of Twitter:
- Comrade @PaladinPhila quoted from the manifesto.
- Comrades @Msardina and @KyleHase spread the words of our leadership to their followers.
- Comrade @gilfer promised us a gold medal in sarcasm.
- Comrade @naseeral—one of the longest-standing members of the Salvation Liberation Army—shared the sweet euphoria of punctuational freedom: I have started using #opensarcasm in my sarcastic little notes. The feeling is invigorating.
- Comrade @pidster provided instructions on punctuating sarcasm to his friend @whittlechris.
- Comrade @grimmlock tweeted: Open Sarcasm Manifesto¡ http://ow.ly/195VF I’ll be damned, I did not know this existed. I just saved 2 bucks¡
- Comrade @jpmarcotte showed true revolutionary spirit, writing: “Bah, nobody would want to use something that’s already free and almost universally usable¡”
- Our newest recruit to the Sarcasm Liberation Army, Comrade @lowrobb shared a link to coverage of our movement and later recomended that his Twitter followers follow @OpenSarcasm for information on achieving punctuational freedom and shared some of our words with them. Thank you, comrade, for your heartfelt enthusiasm and support!
- And Comrade @tonygil tweeted his support after we told him of the alternative to SarcMark®.
II. Coverage from Mighty Red Pen
The self-described “grammar goddess” who pens the blog Mighty Red Pen covered our epic struggle against the chains of punctuational capitalism, saying:
The folks at Open Sarcasm, on the other hand, have a real problem with the SarcMark®. They have a whole website, with a manifesto and so on, decrying the concept of a licensed punctuation mark for identifying sarcasm.
III. Progress in the Turkish Theater
Finally, the revolution made considerable progress in the Turkish Theater with a supportive article from the well-respected Turkish Journal.
Snippet of an auto-translation from google:
And finally, in the age of the Internet into our lives trying to sign
sarkazm itself remained in the middle of a war sarkastik. ‘Money
sarkazma no’ action starts a group of Internet users anarchist,
Ethiopia alphabet, which is the opposite of sarkazm exclamation mark,
exclamation mark in the shape of ”¡” ”universal, free,
classless,” declared the fused sarkazm exclamation. who founded a
website called ”opensarcasm.org” activists, published ‘open sarkazm
manifesto’ to the buying and the ”alphabet” of capitalism started a
fight. And those who use licensed exclamation mark, exclamation to
join the revolution, equal and free for all punctuation marks are
invited to establish a world. Initiated action to protect the
exclamation Sarkazm communist to a capitalist way to finance their
WRITTEN began selling t-shirts.Some observers, the ‘Open sarcasm’ group’s manifesto is not certain
they were serious sarkastik pointed out ‘that’ The world needs a real
exclamation sarkazm comments are made. Let’s look at the battle of
capitalist sarkazm exclamation of sarkazm socialist sarkazm of
exclamation will win?
Of course the sarkazm socialist sarkazm of exclamation will win! This week, our struggle to bring egalitarian punctuation for sarcasm to the people continues. Join us!
notes from the front lines of the revolution: day 1
Yesterday, comrades, the sun shone brightly on the revolution! The day started with remarkable progress in the European Theater.
Comrade naseeral of Sweden tweeted:
Haha! @opensarcasm lanserar gratisalternativ till #sarcmark: ett upp- och nervänt utropstecken. ¡
Which roughly translates to:
Haha! @ opensarcasm introduces free alternative to #sarcmark: an up-and inverted exclamation point. ¡
And his countryman Comrade DMRsweden soon chimed in:
Detta har jag längtat efter¡ Screw you #sarcmark! http://opensarcasm.org/ (tack för tipset @naseeral)
Which Google translates as:
That I have longed for¡ Screw you #sarcmark! http://opensarcasm.org/ (thanks for the tip @ naseeral)
Well put, our Swedish friends.
Later in the day, Comrade Jared Newman of Technologizer brought word of our humble movement to his readers:
A month ago, a company called SarcMark began selling a special punctuation of the same name, intended to denote Sarcasm. As some of our commenters pointed out, punctuation shouldn’t cost money, and SarcMark was charging $2 for the privilege.
Now, a group called Open Sarcasm is staging a protest to crush SarcMark and replace it with an upside-down exclamation mark (¡), which text fields already recognize and doesn’t cost a dime.
A day of great progress for the freeing of sarcasm, indeed! Today, our struggle continues.
Welcome to the Open Sarcasm Revolution
Open Sarcasm is a global revolutionary movement driven by the abiding, fundamental belief that sarcasm must be free. To that end, we bring you the Open Sarcasm Point (¡) and the Open Sarcasm Manifesto. Our goal is to free sarcasm from the chains of the capitalists who wish to charge you for your wit.
Join the Sarcasm Liberation Army by purchasing Authorized Open Sarcasm Wear from the Official Open Sarcasm Store, or by making a donation to support the cause.*
You can also send us an electronic missive in the revolutionary spirit: jointherevolution <at> opensarcasm <dot> org
Sarcasmists of the world, unite!
* Please note: Open Sarcasm is NOT a Non-Profit or a Not-for-Profit Organization. We happen to be unprofitable, but we are not a charity. Donations are accepted to defray the costs of web hosting and domain registration and are not tax-deductible.
