Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
"In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation." "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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gotham Books,
2004.
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| Summary: | "In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation." "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 for 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 history makes a case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. |
| Physical Description: | xxvii, 209 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1592400876 9781592400874 |