10-06-2013, 03:09 AM
I am intersted to know why you have foregone punctuation in this piece. How do you think it serves your submission's aim -- what ever that might be (it is unclear to me).
I wonder if you'd consider why such an un-punctuated sentence as this:
"I enjoy eating my mother and my friends".
does not end up conveying what the writer intended to convey given that he/she is not a cannibal and how the lack of punctuation causes a reader to work more than a reader should have to work to get at the writer's intended meaning.
Lack of attention to proper punctuation seems to me not only to be an affectation (if it is not done out of ignorance of the rules and conventions of punctuation). It shows laziness on a writer's part and is an abrogation of the writer's responsibility to help the reader see with his/her eyes shut (thank you Ms. Paston) rather than to give them a code that they must break.
Jeffrey
I wonder if you'd consider why such an un-punctuated sentence as this:
"I enjoy eating my mother and my friends".
does not end up conveying what the writer intended to convey given that he/she is not a cannibal and how the lack of punctuation causes a reader to work more than a reader should have to work to get at the writer's intended meaning.
Lack of attention to proper punctuation seems to me not only to be an affectation (if it is not done out of ignorance of the rules and conventions of punctuation). It shows laziness on a writer's part and is an abrogation of the writer's responsibility to help the reader see with his/her eyes shut (thank you Ms. Paston) rather than to give them a code that they must break.
Jeffrey
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