Consider, however, the style commonly used on chats such as IRC This sort of writing generally leaves off periods on the ends of sentences sometimes, it even

Consider, however, the style commonly used on chats such as IRC This sort of writing generally leaves off periods on the ends of sentences sometimes, it even leaves off the capitalization at the beginning, as well and yet it manages to be entirely readable and generally unambiguous This is remarkably similar to js's automatic semicolon insertion: if the sentence makes more sense with a period at the end of the line then the reader usually inserts one automatically, without thinking about it