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* Ultimate Mad Thinker from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' talks like this when nobody else in the comic does, presumably to depict her speaking very fast and flatly.
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* ''[[https://bridgeofsunlight.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/kham-thien-luu-quang-vu-1972/ Khâm Thiên]]'' by LÆ°u Quang VÅ© uses only one period at the end of the poem. Capitalized letters and commas are sparse, with all of the first letters of lines (that aren't proper nouns) left in small case.

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Often goes hand in hand with AllLowercaseLetters. Has absolutely nothing to do with NoPeriodsPeriod or ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''. Related to WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma.

Sometimes, though, NoPunctuationIsFunnier. Contrast PunctuationShaker.

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Related to WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma. Often goes hand in hand with AllLowercaseLetters. Has absolutely nothing to do with NoPeriodsPeriod or ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''. Related to WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma.

Sometimes, though, NoPunctuationIsFunnier. Contrast PunctuationShaker.
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* Lucy on ''WebOriginal/TheWarComms'' barely even knows what a Shift key ''is''. Rod and Sue can be pretty bad about this sometimes, too.
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* ''WebVideo/TechnologyConnections'': In [[https://youtu.be/6SL6zs2bDks?t=19 "Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know"]], Alec mocks Website/YouTube's captions for not adding any punctuation with a run-on sentence.
--> '''Alec:''' By hitting [the closed captioning] button, your device will start displaying the text metadata embedded in the video stream that either [=YouTube=] has auto-generated, or that super awesome content creators like myself have put in so that you don't have to simply watch a stream of unpunctuated words flow by like the world's largest run on sentence that never ends and which often contains incorrect words because the captioning system isn't quite perfect and that while useful as a tool could really use... [[FunWithSubtitles (jokes sometimes end up here, too!)]]
--> '''Text:''' This went on for some time...
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* Channeling James Joyce's ''Ulysses'', the Rand Society made ''Literature/AMillionRandomDigitsWithOneHundredThousandNormalDeviates'' in a single sentence, without any commas, periods, or even spaces between characters. The whole book is one giant string of characters that form a single word (well, number).
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* Joined-up alphabets such as Arabic and cursive English often contain many pairs or sets of letters which are mostly, or completely, identical except for the placement of dots meant to distinguish them. Originally, these dots weren't there. This meant you often couldn't tell, except by already knowing the words and judging from context, if a given Arabic letter was (for example) an F or Q, or in the worst possible case, a B, T, TH, N, or Y. English is not ''as'' susceptible, but it still has U vs. II, and I vs. T. (And, depending on Font used capital I and lowercase l.)

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* Joined-up alphabets such as Arabic and cursive English often contain many pairs or sets of letters which are mostly, or completely, identical except for the placement of dots meant to distinguish them. Originally, these dots weren't there. This meant you often couldn't tell, except by already knowing the words and judging from context, if a given Arabic letter was (for example) an F or Q, or in the worst possible case, a B, T, TH, N, or Y. English is not ''as'' susceptible, but it still has U vs. II, and I vs. T. (And, depending on Font used capital I and lowercase l.L.)
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* Joined-up alphabets such as Arabic and cursive English often contain many pairs or sets of letters which are mostly, or completely, identical except for the placement of dots meant to distinguish them. Originally, these dots weren't there. This meant you often couldn't tell, except by already knowing the words and judging from context, if a given Arabic letter was (for example) an F or Q, or in the worst possible case, a B, T, TH, N, or Y. English is not ''as'' susceptible, but it still has U vs. II, and I vs. T.

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* Joined-up alphabets such as Arabic and cursive English often contain many pairs or sets of letters which are mostly, or completely, identical except for the placement of dots meant to distinguish them. Originally, these dots weren't there. This meant you often couldn't tell, except by already knowing the words and judging from context, if a given Arabic letter was (for example) an F or Q, or in the worst possible case, a B, T, TH, N, or Y. English is not ''as'' susceptible, but it still has U vs. II, and I vs. T. (And, depending on Font used capital I and lowercase l.)
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* Some of the chapters narrated by Buck Loner in ''Literature/MyraBreckinridge'' are like this, to reflect that he's [[PaintingTheMedium talking into a dictaphone.]]

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* Some of the chapters narrated by Buck Loner in ''Literature/MyraBreckinridge'' ''Myra Breckinridge'' are like this, to reflect that he's [[PaintingTheMedium talking into a dictaphone.]]
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* Some of the chapters narrated by Buck Loner in ''Literature/MyraBreckinridge'' are like this, to reflect that he's [[PaintingTheMedium talking into a dictaphone.]]

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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 commas and a post scriptum: "My friend, please see fit to fill in all the dots and commas where you think they might look nice."
* There are a few reasons why people on the internet would type without punctuation nowadays:
** [[RapidFireTyping They're in a hurry. Why waste the time with the extra keystrokes?]] Because punctuation doesn't matter as long as you get your message across, once the reader has decoded it.
** [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma They simply don't have a grasp on proper sentence structure.]]
** [[TheSnarkKnight They wish to put across the impression of being purely apathetic.]] [[InWithTheInCrowd You know, in order to look cool.]] [[InternetToughGuy On the internet.]]
** [[NoPunctuationIsFunnier They wish to convey another atypical emotion, demonstrated through the tone in which one interprets their sentence structure, like in the meme phrase "What is this I don't even".]]
** [[CreatorsApathy They genuinely do not care.]]
** [[WhatAnIdiot They were idiots.]]
** They have dyslexia.
** [[TechnologyMarchesOn They're on a mobile phone, game console or other device, and do not have a full keyboard to type on.]] These devices may rely on a small keypad with only letters, numbers and a space, with punctuation relegated to special key combinations that are too annoying to bother with.
** [[YouNoTakeCandle They are typing in a language other than their native tongue]], and are thus not aware of the rules of punctuation in the first place, especially if (as noted above) their own only punctuates sparingly / not at all.
** They're writing something that's short, such as "thank you", and thus have no need to separate different thoughts and sentences.
** [[{{Troll}} Deliberate provocation]] [[ItAmusedMe for personal amusement]]. This is the Internet, after all...

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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 commas and a post scriptum: "My friend, please see fit to fill in all the dots and commas where you think they might look nice."
* There are a few reasons why people on the internet would type without punctuation nowadays:
** [[RapidFireTyping They're in a hurry. Why waste the time with the extra keystrokes?]] Because punctuation doesn't matter as long as you get your message across, once the reader has decoded it.
** [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma They simply don't have a grasp on proper sentence structure.]]
** [[TheSnarkKnight They wish to put across the impression of being purely apathetic.]] [[InWithTheInCrowd You know, in order to look cool.]] [[InternetToughGuy On the internet.]]
** [[NoPunctuationIsFunnier They wish to convey another atypical emotion, demonstrated through the tone in which one interprets their sentence structure, like in the meme phrase "What is this I don't even".]]
** [[CreatorsApathy They genuinely do not care.]]
** [[WhatAnIdiot They were idiots.]]
** They have dyslexia.
** [[TechnologyMarchesOn They're on a mobile phone, game console or other device, and do not have a full keyboard to type on.]] These devices may rely on a small keypad with only letters, numbers and a space, with punctuation relegated to special key combinations that are too annoying to bother with.
** [[YouNoTakeCandle They are typing in a language other than their native tongue]], and are thus not aware of the rules of punctuation in the first place, especially if (as noted above) their own only punctuates sparingly / not at all.
** They're writing something that's short, such as "thank you", and thus have no need to separate different thoughts and sentences.
** [[{{Troll}} Deliberate provocation]] [[ItAmusedMe for personal amusement]]. This is the Internet, after all...
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* Similar things pop in up ''Franchise/ArchieComics'', 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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* Similar things pop in up ''Franchise/ArchieComics'', ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', 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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** [[WhatAnIdiot They were idiots.]] (Note: ''some people have dyslexia''.)

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** [[WhatAnIdiot They were idiots.]] (Note: ''some people ]]
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* 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 UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature.
** The thing is, he ''pulls it off.'' After the first few pages, it stops being difficult to follow, and he uses it effectively to set his tone.

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* The fiction of Portuguese novelist José Saramago Creator/JoseSaramago 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 UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature.
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UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. The thing is, he ''pulls it off.'' After the first few pages, it stops being difficult to follow, and he uses it effectively to set his tone.

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