Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Name: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Rating: 3.869999885559082 (100 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
ISBN: 9781592402038

Lynne Truss . The Penguin Group . English

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 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 or 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.

Categories: Nonfiction,Writing,Language,Reference,Humor,Linguistics,Education

About the Author

Lynne Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, radio broadcaster, and dramatist known for her advocacy of correct and elegant English. She gained international recognition with Eats, Shoots & Leaves, inspired by her BBC Radio 4 program Cutting a Dash. Truss has also written radio plays, children's grammar guides, crime novels, and books about journalism and sports. A former literary editor and Times critic, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and joined the Detection Club in 2021.

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