Should I help Grandad remove the spoken punctuation from his messages?
Funny'Dear grandchildren comma please bring my blue bag question mark love Grandad full stop.'
That was the message. We brought the bag. My cousin read it aloud at lunch like an extremely formal sea captain, and Grandad laughed hardest.
He has started dictating longer family messages. The words 'comma' and 'full stop' sometimes appear in the text. I offered to help him get the punctuation he intended, but he said he liked how commanding the messages sounded. Now he deliberately adds 'new paragraph' before announcing dessert.
Next week I'm putting his reminiscences into a small family booklet. He has sent three pages in the same style. He calls them his letters; I don't know whether he wants the words kept there too. They are funny aloud, but the longer passages are hard to follow on paper.
How do I offer a readable version without deciding for him that his new sea-captain voice is a mistake?