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An edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
(2003)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Illustrated ed.
by Lynne Truss
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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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Non-Fiction, reference, English language, punctuation, syntactic ambiguities, Humor, hyphens, apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, italic type, brackets, ellipses, emoticons, email, grammar, Engels, Interpunctie, Zeichensetzung, Anglais (Langue), Ponctuation, Large type books, rammar, Langues, Grammaire, Manuels de stylistique, Englisch, English language--punctuation, Pe1450 .t75 2004, 428.2, English language, punctuationShowing 8 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2008, Gotham Books
in English
- Illustrated ed.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
April 11, 2006, Gotham, Avery
Paperback
in English
1592402038 9781592402038
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2005, Profile Books
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- 1st printing
1861976771 9781861976772
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教唆熊貓開槍的",": 一次學會英文標點符號
2005, Ru he chu ban, Kou ying zong jing xiao
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- Chu ban
9861360328 9789861360324
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004, Thorndike Press
Hardcover
in English
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0786268379 9780786268375
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004-04, Gotham Books
Hardcover
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- 1st American printing (24)
1592400876 9781592400874
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004, Gotham Books
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0786546328 9780786546329
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2003, Profile Books
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- 4th printing
1861976127 9781861976123
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The seventh sense
The tractable apostrophe
That'll do, comma
Airs and graces
Cutting a dash
A little used punctuation mark
Merely conventional signs.
Edition Notes
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso.
With a foreword by Frank McCourt (2004).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173).
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Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.
We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.
It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’
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