What Exactly Is ≈≈?

 The punctuation born from confusion.  

Most tools that claim to “fix” sarcasm in text rely on emojis, templates, or teaching people to guess tone. These are workarounds — temporary patches that only work in certain contexts, and often feel too childish, too casual, or too limited for professional or academic use

This is different. It’s not a workaround. It’s punctuation.

Works anywhere words are written: texts, novels, emails, academic papers.

Can be typed, handwritten, and available in Braille.

Functions under the same rules we already know for parentheses, quotation marks, and brackets.

Where emojis stop at style, this provides substance. It closes a gap in communication by giving readers and writers a direct tool to mark tone, not just imply it.