Punctuation follows modem practice. The goal of the panel was to make SV look and sound like a piece of contemporary literature. For readers' ears only The translators have made readability the final test of every sentence, every paragraph, every book. They have read the text silently to themselves, aloud to one other, and have had it read silently and aloud by others. Every expression that did not strike the ear as native was reviewed and revised, not once but many times.
Translation is always a compromise, some say even a betrayal.
The panel agreed at the outset not to translate out the social and cultural features of the text that are unfamiliar worse yet, distasteful to the modern reader. That would be to deny the contemporary reader any direct experience of the world, the social context, of the original. On the contrary, they have tried to put those features, as alien and as distasteful as they sometimes are, into plain English. At the same time, the translators have avoided sexist language where not required by the original. Male singulars are occasionally turned into genderless plurals.