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I think what Del is getting at is that it can be hard to receive the ideas in the first place when you have to excavate them. I know that I've personally had difficulty in the past trying to figure out what exactly you mean. You might get better results with more punctuation, since that would help break up the things you're saying into chunks that are easier to process than trying to figure out for ourselves where a thought ends and another begins. This would be less of an issue in normal circumstances, but I get the impression that you speak multiple languages. Props to you in that regard: I live in England and barely speak one, even when you count the scrambled lumps of Japanese. But occasionally it does mean that when you use anything other than a completely standard English word order, it immediately makes the lack of punctuation much more prevalent, because anyone reading it has to then figure how to amputate the natural deviations without any guidelines.
None of this is impossible, it's still intelligible eventually, but it can take a lot of energy to do it when there's an entire paragraph, especially since the natural approach is to keep going until there's some indication to stop before any attempt to sort out the meaning (basically, you can't understand it without reading all the relevant words, but it's impossible to be certain you've read all of the words on the page, so you have to process a whole paragraph at once). It's a daunting task, and one that the brain doesn't particular want to do unless you spend a lot of willpower and force it to.
So that'd be my advice. Punctuation is easier, more effective, and less anal than trying to get a completely standard word order all the time. Honestly, I wouldn't wish rigid sentence structure on anyone, that shit is a curse on creativity.
[/ramble]; was this condescending? I don't know! Charisma is a stat I'm still grinding, with a current score of about 3. But at the very least it might shine a light on why this keeps happening?