Punctuational Proposal

UPDATE: This discussion is continued here.

I humbly submit that the written English language is underpunctuated. We have an exclamation point. We have the question mark. Beyond that, however, we are unable to give the "stage directions" that are needed to really convey our meaning in a written form. Some years ago, I lamented this lack to a friend with whom my primary form of communication was written (he was studying in the UK at the time). We agreed that the hardest thing to convey in writing is sarcasm. To keep our conversations clear, we agreed to use a "sarcasm mark" - since we couldn't spare the time to design a unique mark of our own, we elected to use the %; it is the least used symbol on the keyboard, unless you are an accountant.

Thus any sarcastic remark could be put in sarcasm marks, just like one would represent a quote. Some examples follow...

%I really like President Bush.%
%I'm so glad he got reelected.%

Over time, we began to use it to just surround the most sarcastic words in a statement.

The job the president is doing with the war in Iraq is %really great.%
Brittany Spears is so %talented%.

In some extreme cases, we just put a sarcasm mark in the middle of a word. This was understood to mean "dripping with sarcasm."

I absolutely lo%ve her work!
Episode 2 was the be%st fuc%king mov%ie ever!

So, the Flock is a %very intelligent% group of people - I'd be rea%lly interested in hearing what you all think on this... Discuss.