Throw in special characters (punctuation marks) and you add yet another dimension.

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Emoticons, which represent moods and facial expressions using a combination of punctuation marks, numbers and letters, are the darling of the texting world.

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In the game, players take on a series of increasingly tough enemies in an arena drawn using only the basic characters and punctuation marks available in Excel.

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Paul Gerhardt, project director of the Creative Archive Licence Group, added the big news stories of the last three decades were "the punctuation marks in the stories of our lives".

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Specific marks are being allocated for good spelling, punctuation and grammar - a change that affects exams in English literature, geography, history and religious studies taken since January this year.

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The same goes for any other type of punctuation mark, and while it's rather awkward at first to speak out these marks that usually fly through your thoughts as you're going from word to word, it grows easier with time.

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