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* José Saramago is particularly guilty of this, with paragraphs that sometimes extend ''over 5 pages''. He also sometimes uses no punctuation marks other than commas and periods, and doesn't explicitly indicate which character is speaking.
** Saramago's "style" of punctuation is quite frequently mocked in his home country of Portugal. A high school Portuguese textbook featured a section on punctuation and an exercise featuring an excerpt of Saramago with the goal being to analyze its use. The kicker was that the author included a note on the margin reading "Please note that Saramago only uses punctuation in this manner for stylistic purposes and only in sections featuring dialog. In fact, outside of said sections, Saramago is actually ''more'' rigorous with punctuation [[Take That|than most Portuguese authors.]]"
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
** Also in ''[[
** Then there's Terry Pratchett's exten'sion (in ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Po'stal]]'') of the ca'se of the greengrocer's apo'strophe, where one character's dialogue alway's had an apos'trophe next to each S. It i's mos't amu'sing.
** And the origin of this trope's name: Captain Carrot, who like all good dwarfs writes home to the old mine on a regular
*** It isn't necessarily a mistake Carrot's part. Reading the oath literally means that the recruits don't have to swear allegiance to the monarch, which in this case everyone knows is Carrot. He says that he doesn't want people to obey him because he is "... good at being obeyed", but because it is the law.
** In ''[[
*** It's not meant to be. Carrot is literal-minded, and Vimes was showing off that he knew the oath so well he could do it with all the correct punctuation as well.
** Of Course, There Is Also The Text Gag Of Golems Talking Like So, Likely Meant To Imply That They Are Very Loud And Demand Attention.
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