These new punctuation marks are precisely what we need, period

The colon-parentheses smiley has saved many a digital message from friendship-ending misinterpretation. But the fact is our daily writing (or what passes for it in emails, texts and tweets) is sadly in need of new punctuation. CollegeHumor's Mike Trapp has tweaked a few current markings and created his own, and the result is more clarity, flexiblity and fun. In fact, if you could use his mockwotations, morgan freemarks, sarcastises and I'm-not-angry marks, it's likely you could cut your word count in half. Click through the hilarious examples above and then check out the rest at collegehumor.com. And pass them on to a friend. With a smiley emoticon, of course.

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