French poet, Alcanter de Brahm, proposed the irony mark (؟) towards the end of the 19th century to indicate a sentence which should be understood as ironic or sarcastic.
Franca poeto, Alcanter de Brahm, proponis la ironian markon, ؟, je la fino de la 19a jarcento por indiki frazon komprenenda ironie aŭ sarkasme.