Eats, Shoots And Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 209 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Is A Book For People Who Love Punctuation And Get Upset About It.

Publishers Description: Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely Arent we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe, "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. "Pansys ready," we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she"), as we browse among the bedding plants.In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pendants left who care, then so be it. "Sticklers unite" is her rallying cry. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion - and arguably you didnt have much of that to begin with."This is the book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma"; from George Orwell shunning the semicolon to Peter Cook saying Nevile Shutes three dots made him feel "all funny", this book makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.--front flap

ISBN: 9781861976123