Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero toleration approach to punctuation / by Lynne Truss ; illustrated by Pat Byrnes.

By:

Truss, Lynne

Contributor(s):

Byrnes, Pat [ill.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Gotham Books c2008.Edition: Illustrated edDescription: 176 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781592403912
1592403913

Other title:

Eats, shoots and leaves

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

428.2 22

Online resources:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Book	Ashok Goel Library, Rishihood University General stacks	Rashtram School of Public Leadership	428.2 TRU (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		RU00002186

"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).

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.

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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