Punctuation

Punctuation matters. It matters because if authors did not use punctuation, the readers' job's difficulty will increase tenfold. This is especially true for periods. I mean how hard will it be if I continued this sentence indefinitely because I did not feel like putting a dot at the end nor a comma or semicolon in the middle I think that as you continue reading this terrible run-on you will get the picture  not only can you not be able to tell which sentence is which you cannot fully comprehend my meaning because you will not be able to distinguish the pauses that separate parts of the sentences. How was that for an argument? And aren't you glad that I put a question mark at the end of that sentence? But Dennis Baron argues that punctuation is temporary but I argue that they still matter.