Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation; Lynne Truss; 2003
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation; Lynne Truss; 2003

Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation

av Lynne Truss

  • Utgiven: 2003
  • ISBN: 9781861976123
  • Sidor: 228 st
  • Förlag: Profile
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska

Om boken

Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't 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. "Pansy's 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 pedants 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 didn't have much of that to begin with." This is a 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 Shute's 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.

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2003 släpptes boken Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation skriven av Lynne Truss. Den är skriven på engelska och består av 228 sidor. Förlaget bakom boken är Profile.

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Harvard

Truss, L. (2003). Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Profile.

Oxford

Truss, Lynne, Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation (Profile, 2003).

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Truss, L. (2003). Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Profile.

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Truss L. Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Profile; 2003.