am I the only one who is irationally irritated by people who don't use punctuation?

[wannaBe]

As a rule I am not a pedant, and my spelling can be questionable .

But when I come across sentences where people use no punctuation it irritates me irationally. partly I think because when the screen reader reads it, it reads it in one long string, so I almost expect it to take a deep breath when it's finished.

And surely it must be really hard to read?

You are not alone.

it makes it hard to read.

YANBU.

At all.

Not even a tiny bit.

And please don't set me off about the misuse of apostrophes to form a plural.

Lack of paragraphs is annoying - it stops me from reading the post

As is text-speak

sometimes though even though people put a full stop at the end, they write huge long sentences with no commas in the middle.

I do hate text speak too - and screenreader speaks it differently so it's blatantly obvious!

YANBirrational!

im rubbish at punctuation but i do try.

i do agree i find text speak harder to read though.

Oh, dear lord, don't get me started on bloody text speak.
I don't even like that in a text message.

irritates me too but not as much as text-speak.

YANBU.

I just give up, personally. Which is a shame, in a way, if there is something valid being said amongst the lack of punctuation. It is hard to read, and it must be equally hard to keep track of a paragraph-long sentence when it is read by the screen reader.

I'm so sorry, wannaBe about failing to use punctuation on my response to a thread.

Next time i will spend more time punctuating it.

Is this better? Do i get a gold star now! Pretty please.

Blimey you can tell Cod hasn't been here for a while - not she ever knew where the punctuation keys were on her keyboard

I hate text speak and my pet hate is bad punctuation. When my nephew texts me I visibly wince...so YANBU!

I used to think (and I know DH still thinks) that my DM and I were the only people in the world who used punctuation in text messages - I am now reasonably confident that I am not alone

not sure she ever knew

wannabe, how did your screen reader cope with cod's illiterate scrawl?

Did you find out what was making you poorly?

YANBU. Sometimes lack of punctuation changes the meaning of a word - 'I'll' becomes 'ill' for example. It does make it harder to read.

I anally write out my text messages word for word, with punctuation too.

I have friends who write their text messages to me word for word because they thought that text speak upsets the screenreader. I haven't felt the need to set them straight.

SOH it was like a whole new language.

It turned out to be a virus. Blood all came back clear, and the next week the head at ds' school told me she'd been to a meeting that day and one of the other heads had had exactly the same thing.

It's gone down now thankfully.

Lack of punctuation is lazy and inconsiderate to the reader. My mental image of the writer is one of a rather untidily dressed and disorganised one.

I also punctuate my text messages.

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's lazy and inconsiderate - when I see lack of punctuation I imagine a mother typing one handed whilst breastfeeding or multi-tasking in some other way. It just makes it very hard to understand.

but belgo, it is as easy to reach for a '.' and return key on the keyboard as it is an 'a'. I have typed one-handed and bf-ing before.

Surely what someone is saying is far more important.

Nit picking is my pet hate.