punctuation do we need it
i was intrigued by tiggers mums comment and also bobs that punctuation was overrated and not needed so i thought i would attempt to write a post without any im no e e cummings so dont expect too much or anything really
already i can see difficulties full stops clarify where sentences finish two spaces between sentences dont seem enough and contractions are unclear so i am going to leave four spaces between sentences and dispense with contractions questions should seem fairly obvious do you not think
i imagine that it requires more careful reading and it certainly feels stilted in addition i am having to override words intelligence in capitalising and inserting apostrophes maybe by the end of this brief passage it will have learned the new rules and cease such automatic and grammatical behaviour
the last time i remember having to think in a different way when writing was when i had to write an essay in ita the initial teaching alphabet which was intended to revolutionise the way children learnt to read basically it required the use of a longer alphabet of 45 symbols which was meant to make learning to read easier
enough of this tomfoolery i cannot live without punctuation im too long in the tooth for such escapades and in truth cannot express myself sufficiently without recourse to full stops exclamation marks commas colons semicolons inverted commas question marks en dashes em dashes ellipses hyphens and any others i may have neglected to mention
