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So youve found what seems to be a good fanfic 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 Noooooooooooooo This poor writer doesn't just use punctuation sporadically — there's no punctuation, period. When 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, some brave tropers among them, who have taken up arms to fight back the scourge of illiteracy. Given that periods are not required in written Japanese, a lot of scanlations are prone to this. Or else! They will end every sentence the same way! Usually with an exclamation mark! Even when it makes no sense! And when it reduces the impact of sentences that actually had an exclamation mark in Japanese! Related to Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma. Often goes hand in hand with all lowercase letters. Sometimes, though, no punctuation is funnier. Contrast Punctuation Shaker. |
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Technology Connections: In "Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know", Alec mocks YouTube's captions for not adding any punctuation with a run-on sentence. | |
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Roast Beef of Achewood (and Nice Pete as well)'s speech balloons have a lower sized font than the rest of the comic's population, and no punctuation. Presumably this reflects a quiet, flat tone of voice. Exemplified in Roast Beef's blog. | |
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The entirety of the original Italian text of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose was written without a single semi-colon. This had critics wondering, until the author admitted that it had been written on a typewriter without such a key and he didn't like to backspace and put a comma over a colon. | |
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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. She also does not use quotation marks in her book Caramelo, using dashes instead. | |
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The second part of The Sound and the Fury, narrated by a somewhat unstable Quentin, gradually discards all grammar and punctuation and devolves into a single run-on sentence that goes on for pages. | |
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The speech balloons in Garfield never end with a period. They end only with an exclamation point, question mark, or a dash to indicate interruption. Sentences that do not terminate with the end of a speech balloon would have normal punctuation. | |
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That moment in Con el Diablo en los Talones when Camilo slips into Motor Mouth mode: | |
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Homestuck has several characters typing like this. Dave Strider and Aradia Megido type with no punctuation, but split the text up so a period equals a new line. Nepeta Leijon and Terezi Pyrope only use exclamation and question marks. Kanaya Maryam doesn't use punctuation, but continues at the next line each time punctuation is required. Equius Zahhak doesn't use any punctuation except commas. Eridan Ampora not only doesn't use punctuation, he often types multiple sentences on one line. Inverted by uu (undyingUmbrage aka Caliborn): he uses periods instead of commas, plus anywhere else he feels like. Jake English uses punctuation at the end of his sentences, but not in the middle. |
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In The Order of the Stick, Thog speak like this and every other orc too. | |
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Breath of Fire III: When the last word in a text box is also the end of a sentence, it never ends in a period. It's an exclamation point, a question mark, an ellipsis or nothing. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dwarven language contains little punctuation, just red highlighting for important words (known as rubrication in real life) and slashes between sentences. While it is not explicitly stated that the source text lacked punctuation, the backstory of the Forgotten Realms features a disagreement between translators over where punctuation should go in a prophetic text (and therefore where two sentences would end and begin), heavily implying this. This turns out to be rather important, as while there's no indication the prophecy actually told the future, one of the adherents of putting the punctuation earlier decided to make that interpretation come true. |
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Breath of Fire: Breath of Fire III: When the last word in a text box is also the end of a sentence, it never ends in a period. It's an exclamation point, a question mark, an ellipsis or nothing. Breath of Fire and Breath of Fire II both did the same thing, which makes one wonder whether this was actually a mistake or done for stylistic reasons. The latter seems like the obvious choice on paper, but reading the in-game dialogue brings significant doubt to this theory. |
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While it is not explicitly stated that the source text lacked punctuation, the backstory of the Forgotten Realms features a disagreement between translators over where punctuation should go in a prophetic text (and therefore where two sentences would end and begin), heavily implying this. This turns out to be rather important, as while there's no indication the prophecy actually told the future, one of the adherents of putting the punctuation earlier decided to make that interpretation come true. | |
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Trainspotting has different punctuation rules based on the point-of-view character. Each chapter is from a different perspective. Some of the narrators are better about it than others. | |
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Justified in the archy and mehitabel poems by Don Marquis: Archy is a cockroach who writes by jumping headfirst onto the keys of Marquis's typewriter. This means he can't type anything that requires holding down the shift key. | |
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Another professional example: in Xenogears, even though the dialogue was very colorful with all sorts of things (intentional misspellings not included), some sentences do not have periods, possibly due to the "Blind Idiot" Translation. | |
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Similar things pop in up Archie Comics, so that every sentence tends to end with an exclamation point. It appears that Riverdale is full of people with no inside voices. Gold Key Comics' dialogue balloons were notorious for ending every sentence with an exclamation mark, even if the balloon contains some five sentences. | |
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Every sentence in the original Japanese Pokémon games ends in either an exclamation point, question mark, or ellipses. One with a period was finally added for Pokémon Gold and Silver; it describes what happens when a Pokémon uses the move "Splash" (nothing). | |
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For those who want a bit more concrete an example: The New Testament is, in fact, one of the best preserved manuscripts — many copies and fragments of copies have survived, and most of the oldest ones have surfaced in the last century. On a collated text — one created by combining every copy available — it is pretty much impossible to find a page where there isn't anything footnoted with an explanation of why they chose the version they did and what the variants were, in space-saving standardized code. (And this is also a text that was usually proofread, as evidenced by some copies having corrections; apparently it was suspected that God might be a Grammar Nazi.) The different readings of punctuation can be important; a significant difference between the Catholic and Protestant churches is derived from whether Jesus said "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise," or "Amen, I say to you today, you will be with me in Paradise." The King James Version and several other Bible translations have a whole load of words in italics, seemingly at random, because translators added those words to make the text work under English grammar. Some [other] translations use [square] brackets instead to denote insertions. Adding these words appears to explicitly endorse one of a range of possible readings of the original text. |
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Some comics, like Peanuts, often would not end a sentence (or last sentence if there were more than one) with any punctuation. Speaking of Peanuts, Charles Schulz also routinely ended sentences with ellipses (of anywhere from two to seven dots) in lieu of periods. |
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In Wonderful Town, Baker has to take an emergency pause for breath while reading an enormous run-on sentence in one of the deliberately ridiculous Plays Within The Play written by Ruth. | |
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This sometimes happens with TV Tropes examples | |
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Breath of Fire and Breath of Fire II both did the same thing, which makes one wonder whether this was actually a mistake or done for stylistic reasons. The latter seems like the obvious choice on paper, but reading the in-game dialogue brings significant doubt to this theory. | |
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Rainbow Dash talks like this almost entirely in Super Lesbian Horse RPG. When she has to apologize to Fluttershy after they've had a fight, she lampshades this by going to so far as to acknowledge using punctuation in her dialogue to indicate her seriousness. | |
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YouTube video captions generated using their Transcribe Audio feature are often like this. | |
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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). Supposedly Joyce did this to imitate his wife's letters, which were written that way, per a technique used to teach less well-off girls in Ireland at that time to write. | |
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Same with Cry, the Beloved Country, in imitation of the King James Bible. Justified since the main character is a preacher. | |
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The subtitles on the Spirited Away DVD never have periods — unless they have ellipses, exclamation or question marks, it's nothing. | |
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Kind of justified examples can be found quite commonly in older novels and such works, where the current rules of grammar and spelling were non-existent at the time, and hence the punctuation (and general spelling/grammar) is all over the place. Pretty much the entirety of Robinson Crusoe is a good example of this, although there are many others. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Timescape", Captain Picard relates a story of Doctor Vassbinder at a conference, who gave a long dissertation on one subject when it should have been a completely different one. When asked why no one reminded him, Picard responds "There was no opportunity, there was no pause, He-just-kept-talking-in-one-long-incredibly-unbroken-sentence-moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-a-chance-to-interrupt-it-was-really-quite-hypnotic. | |
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