Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of underpunctuation.
There has been the war against split infinitives, over-capitalization, under-punctuation, spelling errors, and misplaced modifiers.
1970 October 25, Art Christen, “Offbeat”, in Springfield News-Sun, volume 43, number 16, Springfield, Ohio, page 4 B3 more examples
Mr. Kirkup was probably ill-advised to print the long poems. Over-paragraphing, under-punctuation, and short lines, make them appear wispier than they really are, and some good imagery and observation is swamped by the personal and dreamy fantasy.
1948, Tribune, page 17Under-punctuation (which is fashionable to-day) throws a great deal of the burden of interpretation on the reader, and sometimes leaves him with obscurities and ambiguities. Over-punctuation has the same effect as unnatural variations of the voice and exaggerated gestures in speaking.
1957, George Henry Vallins, “Points of Punctuation”, in Good English: How to Write It, London: Pan Books Ltd., page 112The short answer would be that both bear the customary stigmata of avant-garde prose: typographical oddity, under-punctuation, a liberal sprinkling of the four-letter words.
1958 March 9, Rayner Heppenstall, “Tramp-Reality”, in The Observer, number 8,697, London, page 17
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