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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach
Category: Language Arts: Grammar
Author: Lynne Truss
Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Gotham Books
ISBN: 1-592-40087-6
Binding: Cloth
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a
well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation ("A sparkling
series of essays"- Daily Telegraph), which led to the
writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a
runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller
lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book
Tops Bestseller List" -BBC News. With more than 500,000 copies in
print in her native England, Lynne Truss is ready to rally the
troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers
unite!"
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, 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. 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 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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