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Originally Posted by hidari
Below is an example where commas can make a difference, but in a novel....who cares:
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I do, and so do a great many other people who think that correct spelling, grammar and punctuation are important. For me it's an instant "fail" if a book is poorly written, regardless of how good the story may be.
You say that "People never seem to notice my commas or full stops when I am speaking.", but that's not true. The whole purpose of punctuation is to provide a written equivalent to the pauses, intonation changes, and other auditory cues that the spoken language contains.
yes of course you could write text like this with no punctuation but it would make it very difficult indeed to read you wouldn't know when sentences started or finished who was speaking or when there was a break in the text punctuation serves to make written text more understandable