Until recently, I wasn’t aware that Arabic & Hebrew both rarely (if ever) used punctuation. How do sentences manage to not run into each other? Apparently its usage is a more modern occurence.
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I recommend reading the book “Blindness” by Jose Saramago. It’s not without punctuation, but it does not use standard English punctuation conventions and specifically doesn’t denote speech. I didn’t even notice because the speaker was so clear from the prose. Punctuation is like subtitles on your own language when the accent is hard. If things are said clearly, the punctuation is unnecessary, but where there is potential ambiguity in what is written, we rely on punctuation to tell us which way to read it. I used a lot of commas in the preceding sentences but if I took them out you would still understand it. Just like you understood that last comma free sentence which technically required them.
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