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Originally Posted by HarryT
I totally disagree with your friend. If your friend is seriously suggesting that narrative text shouldn't contain the usual punctuation such as commas, semicolons, dashes, etc - well, that's just idiotic.
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Well, she wasn't talking about the stuff in the middle of the sentence like commas, colons, etc. Just the stuff at the end. The only "in the middle" stuff she disapproved of was anything that added bang to it, like italics. She saw narration as just flat text. IE, sorta like, "Tom went to town, saw a cat and bought a soda." But she disapproved of things like "Tom got run over!?" or "Not on
my watch!"