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All across the streaming website Twitch.tv, people have successfully expressed sarcasm through proper use of the Kappa Emote. If this easy expression of comical intent were to be expanded to the rest of the Internet, the results would be astonishing. Sarcasm related misunderstandings would all but vanish....

Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ϰ; Greek: κάππα, káppa) is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the /k/ sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, Kʹ has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph . Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К. Greek proper names and placenames containing kappa are often written in English with "c" due to the Romans' transliterations into the Latin alphabet: Constantinople, Corint...