A list of puns related to "Irony punctuation"
Loads of notations have been proposed through the ages, but most never gained any real popularity. What (non-standard) punctuation do your conlangs use, and have any of them faded into esoteric use by your speakerbases/fallen out of use?
>The first sign of trouble had been his oculus-targeter twitching. Its rangeexpander had been playing up ever since they had entered the heart of the storm, so heโd pulled it back from maximum power. That malfunction in itself had been odd โ the device was meant to be immune from atmospheric contamination โ but his mind had been fixated on the agreeable slaughter about to happen, and so heโd not paid much attention.
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>Then it had started twitching madly. For a second, a ludicrous second, it looked as though there were a whole new storm of signals advancing out from the northern approaches to the gate, marching in serried formation under the lightning-sparked skirts of the thunderheads. Then the reading was gone, replaced by a scream of static, and he could only see that irritating gaggle of Thunder Warriors standing out in the open like beggars haggling over scraps with the Emperorโs golden ambassador.
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>He shifted position, feeling his old limbs creak in the cold. Slak had his lance ready too, similarly burning to move.
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>โWhatโre they waiting for?โ Achilla muttered.
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>Slak stiffened. โDamn,โ the big man said, softly.
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>โWhat?โ
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>โDamn.โ
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>Achilla turned on him. โWhat?โ
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>Slak wasnโt looking at him. Slak was peering out into the storm, his helm-visor making a strange whirring sound. He must have had some kind of augur-mechanism in there. Heโd kept that quiet.
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>Achilla turned back to the battlefield and tried to adjust his own augmetics. For a moment, all he saw was the snow gusting and the irondark terrain, all of it glowering under the relentless bludgeon of the wind. Then, in a sudden data-blurt of clarity, he saw what Slak had just seen.
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>โDamn,โ he breathed.
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>*The battle-signal finally flashed across his helm-visor. The tanksโ engines gunned into life. The artillery opened up, and the infant
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