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Loading... Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)by Lynne Truss
  
Female Author (213) Unread books (250) » 12 more 2000s decade (66) Read (94) Books Read in 2014 (1,840) Books Read in 2010 (231) Funny Books (9) Craft Books (3) No current Talk conversations about this book. Very interesting look at the history and correct use of punctuation. Written in an easy-going, engaging style, this book is both amusing and informative. (  ) calenmarwen | May 29, 2023 |  davdittrich | Feb 14, 2023 | Dull and unengaging. Given that I have a whole shelf of similar guides and it's a subject I have a great interest in, that was a surprise. (  ) Andy_Dingley | Jan 15, 2023 | SUPER FUNNY, and also, I learnt stuff like how the commas are super important and if you move them around, they might create new biblical interpretations: For example “verily, I say unto thee, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” vs “Verily I say unto thee this day, Thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” (P74, Truss) The former the comma after “thee” is the Protestant interpretation of the Bible which skips over the concept of Purgatory, while the second with the comma after “they” means to Catholics that Paradise is promised sometime later, after Purgatory. The placement of the comma changes the meaning of the religious text. The more you know! (  ) enlasnubess | Jan 13, 2023 | This! is. a, great - little; book' about/ punctuation( it"s both? educational: and` informative",,,1,1 30227641,Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region ( ) lpg3d | Nov 12, 2022 |
 The first punctuation mistake in “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma. It is a wild ride downhill from there.  When [Truss] stops straining at lawks-a-mussy chirpiness and analyzes punctuation malpractice, she is often persuasive  The passion and fun of her arguments are wonderfully clear. Here is someone with abiding faith in the idea that ''proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.'' Lynne Truss's book is (stay with this sentence, and remember the function of punctuation is to 'tango the reader into the pauses, inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken word would convey') as much an argument for clear thinking as it is a pedantic defence of obsolete conventions of written language. Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs an expanded version ofIs parodied inIs replied to in
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. No library descriptions found. 
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