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Punctuation Marks Indicating Irony

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38%10 Inclination towards irony and irony-infused humor
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38%10 French punctuation marks used as quotation marks
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• Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “ and ”.

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