Email tone checker

[mattbell]

This company promises to help you check the tone of your emails before sending them.  I have no idea how well it works, but it could be a great idea if implemented well.  I could see offering a variety of plugins for correcting specific issues -- eg you could create a filter to help you use Non-Violent Communication or apply Gottman's principles for communication. 

Comments

[sarcazm.livejournal.com]

i like the snark mark, and also i use the /sarcasm from my irc days, but it's a bit heavy-handed even still. /s doesn't work anymore because of the strikethrough html. unfortunately, since the .~ hasn't really caught on, not many people would really be able to communicate properly in a sarcastic fashion, now would they?

perhaps i should attempt to spread it around a bit more like a new-fangled version of internet-based punctuation plague.

[proctologiste.livejournal.com]

Mirroring Matt Bell's suggestion below, I actually use this emoticon almost instead of punctuation: :>

It represents mild facetiousness and/or playfullness, which generally pervades my prose :>