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Eats, shoots & leaves, the zero tolerance approach to punctuation, Lynne Truss

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Eats, shoots & leaves, the zero tolerance approach to punctuation, Lynne Truss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eats, shoots & leaves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54685268

Responsibility statement

Lynne Truss

Sub title

the zero tolerance approach to punctuation

Summary

We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, 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

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Frank McCourt -- Publisher's note -- Preface -- Introduction: Seventh sense -- Tractable apostrophe -- That'll do, comma -- Airs and graces -- Cutting a dash -- Little used punctuation mark -- Merely conventional signs -- Bibliography

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Eats, shoots, and leaves

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