Michigan company says SarcMark should be official punctuation mark for sarcasm. Jan. 18, 2010— -- Watch out, :-) Stand aside, j/k. There's a new kind of punctuation in town and it wants sarcasm ...

Emoticons -- those jumbles of punctuation in an e-mail or text -- might leave you scratching your head and feeling :-S . Decoding them can be exercise in :-P . Sometimes, it makes you want to break ...

Emoticons, irregular spellings and exclamation points in text messages aren't sloppy or a sign that written language is going down the tubes -- these 'textisms' help convey meaning and intent in the ...

Today is a special holiday! Happy National Punctuation Day. Punctuation can be both the great love and the occasional bane of a writer's existence, and it's not strange that a love affair may crop up ...

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study. Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice ...

Electronic mail and Internet newsgroups are very efficient at sending digital text, and their asynchronous nature makes them valuable communications tools. However, both share one glaring fault: Their ...