Given that yesterday we posted about the importance of revision, and because Monday was the NCTE’s Fifth Annual National Day on Writing, we thought we would continue the trend and usher in this Friday by celebrating writing.

But writing in English is the worst. Don’t you think?

Whether it’s your first, second, or fifth language, I think we can all agree that the amount of time and effort it takes to master the English language – and especially the written English language – is just ridiculous. The only thing more irritating than the number of rules the language has is the number of times they’re broken. In that sense, English grammatical rules sort of seem like the points on television’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”: they just don’t matter.

That’s why we love the fantastically witty post “8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need” from Mike Trapp and the sometimes crude folks at College Humour. It’s not the first time bloggers have suggested alternative punctuation marks on that site, but we particularly like this list. We’re especially fond of the “Morgan Freemark”, which Trapp explains as follows:

Reminds readers that they can read words in any voice they want, so maybe they should read these words in Morgan Freeman’s voice.

Because let’s none of us pretend  that we’ve never defaulted to Mr. Freeman’s voice when bored reading to ourselves. Read more about the Morgan Freemark and other punctuation the modern world demands here.