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{{quote|and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.|'''[[James Joyce]]''', ''[[Ulysses]]''<ref>The final dot is one of the three punctuation signs in the whole ending chapter.</ref>}}
 
[[Self -Demonstrating Article|So youve found]] what seems to be a good [[Fanfic]] I mean you havent started reading it yet but its got a good description and better yet your [[OTP]] is in it Of course you have to read it thusly you click on it and beg wait um what is this where are the periods the question marks exclamation points Oh god no commas or colons no no [[Big No|NOOOOOOOOoooooo]]
 
Alas, you've just stumbled into a relic of the [[No Punctuation Period]], a horrible time in which people apparently forgot how sentences were built. Taken to extremes it can result in a visual [[Wall of Text]], thus adding to its unreadability. Sadly, this happens outside of [[Fan Fics]] too, as many Tropers could tell you. There are a few havens of good style, [[Grammar Nazi|some brave netizens Tropers among them]], who have taken up arms to fight back the [[Serious Business|scourge of illiteracy]].
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Sometimes, though, [[No Punctuation Is Funnier]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[The House On Mango Street]]'' by Sandra Cisneros never, ever seems to use quotation marks. You have to figure out who's talking.
* Same with ''[[Cry the Beloved Country]]'', in imitation of the King James Bible. Justified since the main character is a preacher.
* Justified in the ''[[Archy and Mehitabel (Literature)]]'' poems by Don Marquis: Archy is a cockroach who writes by jumping headfirst onto the keys of [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|Marquis's typewriter]]. This means he can't type anything that requires holding down the shift key.
* There is a lack of punctuation throughout ''Guitar Highway Rose'', depending on whose point of view the section is from. This makes dialogue very confusing at times.
* Alan Paton, author of "Cry, the Beloved Country", apparently dislikes quotation marks, instead using an en dash at the beginning of a paragraph to indicate someone is speaking.
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** [[The Snark Knight|They wish to put across the impression of being purely apathetic.]] [[In With the In Crowd|You know, in order to look cool.]] [[Internet Tough Guy|On the internet.]]
** [[They Just Didn't Care|They genuinely]] ''[[They Just Didn't Care|do not care.]]''
** [[What an Idiot!|They were idiots.]] (Thats not fair I have dyslexia or Aspergers or adhd or hangnails or chocoholism google said so!)
** [[Technology Marches On|They're on a mobile phone, game console or other device, and do not have a full keyboard to type on.]] These devices may rely on a small keypad with only letters, numbers and a space, with punctuation relegated to special key combinations that are too annoying to bother with.
 
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