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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

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Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book or people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 209 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: The Penguin Group

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1592402038

ISBN13:: 9781592402038

kindle Asin:: B000OIZSVY

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

3.87/5 (98622 ratings)

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Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book or people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 209 pages

Publication:: 2006

Publisher:: The Penguin Group

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1592402038

ISBN13:: 9781592402038

kindle Asin:: B000OIZSVY

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