Comments on: History http://thesnark.org Home of the Verbal Irony Mark Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:07:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: cuttlefish http://thesnark.org/history/#comment-4 cuttlefish Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:28:05 +0000 http://thesnark.org/history/#comment-4 The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative lists several historic punctuation marks in its recommendation which resemble the snark. I am not a medieval scholar, so I cannot speak as to whether any of them was ever used in a manner similar to the intended use of the snark, but I think this is worthy of further investigation, at least concerning the history of the form of the mark its self, if not its usage as well. This certainly would not be the first time a glyph has shifted from one purpose to another. Medieval Unicode Font Initiative http://www.mufi.info/ Possible snark relatives can be found on pages 136-138 of the following document: http://www.mufi.info/specs/MUFI-Alphabetic-2-0.pdf The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative lists several historic punctuation marks in its recommendation which resemble the snark. I am not a medieval scholar, so I cannot speak as to whether any of them was ever used in a manner similar to the intended use of the snark, but I think this is worthy of further investigation, at least concerning the history of the form of the mark its self, if not its usage as well. This certainly would not be the first time a glyph has shifted from one purpose to another.

Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
http://www.mufi.info/

Possible snark relatives can be found on pages 136-138 of the following document:
http://www.mufi.info/specs/MUFI-Alphabetic-2-0.pdf

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