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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]].
Often goes hand in hand with [[All Lowercase Letters]]. Has absolutely nothing to do with [[No Periods, Period]] or ''[[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Zero Punctuation]]''. Let us mention neither here. Related to [[Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma]].
Sometimes, though, [[No Punctuation Is Funnier]].
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* One practice of modern poetry is to dispense with punctuation. The most famous example is [[EE Cummings]].
* Can also be done for stylistic reasons: viz., the last chapter of ''[[Ulysses]]''. Well, it has one period somewhere in the middle, and one at the end (said by some to indicate an orgasm).
* There's an early 19th-century satirical work by [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|eccentric but extremely successful businessman]] [
* David Mayne's ''The Book Of Samson'' only has two commas in the entire novel. (Although other punctuation marks are used.)
* The fiction of Portuguese novelist José Saramago features only periods and commas, and nothing more. Furthermore, there's no indication of dialogue or who's talking what, except that each piece of dialogue starts with capital letters, just as if it was written normally. Finally, his paragraphs extend over pages. Sweden awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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** ''Willem often sent me letter back in the day. Often, the punctuation was off. One time, he sent over a letter which was just one long sentence, going on and on. He ended the letter with a bunch of dots and comma's and a post scriptum: My friend, please see fit to fill in all the dots and comma's where you think they might look nice.''
* There are a few reasons why people on the internet would type without punctuation nowadays:
** [[Rapid
** [[Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma|They simply don't have a grasp on proper sentence structure.]]
** [[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.]]
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