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Eats, Shoots and Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2006
ISBN-13 9781592400874
ISBN-10 1592400876
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Subject Language Arts & Disciplines
File Size 81 MB
Number of Pages 240
Shelf No. KM724
Grade Range 12-13
Ages 18-99