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Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Penguin, 12 avr. 2004 - 240 pages
The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to’s to show how important punctuation is in our world—period.
 
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, 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. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.
 
Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.

  

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Highly entertaining and educational. - Goodreads
It never to late to impove my writing skills. - Goodreads
Read it, love it, reference it. - Goodreads
a nice refresher, not to mention a change of pace... - Goodreads
Excellent, clever, and educational - Goodreads
I enjoyed Truss's writing style. - Goodreads

Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Avis d'utilisateur  - MisterFweem - Goodreads

The folks at work kinda rolled their eyes at me when they saw what I was reading. "Leave it to a technical writer to read a book about punctuation." Well, I learned a lot. I learned, for example, that ... Consulter l'avis complet

Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Avis d'utilisateur  - Adrienne Taylor - Goodreads

Interesting and enlightening. Especially enjoyed the author's quirky sense of humor. Also, enjoyed the reflection on how email and texting are changing the way we express ourselves in written form. Consulter l'avis complet

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Table des matières

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Publishers Note
Preface
Introduction The Seventh Sense
The Tractable Apostrophe
Thatll Do Comma
Airs and Graces
Cutting a Dash
A Little Used Punctuation Mark
Merely Conventional Signs
Bibliography
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À propos de l'auteur (2004)

LYNNE TRUSS is the author of the "New York Times" bestseller" Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door," and "The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels," "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," for which she won Britainas Book of the Year Award, has sold over three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular host on BBC Radio 4, a "Times" (London) columnist, and the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.

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