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Eats Shoots & Leaves

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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  • "Eats,shoots and leaves"@ja
  • "Eats, shoots, and leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots, and leaves"@en
  • "Yi ci xue hui Ying wen biao dian fu hao"
  • "一次學會英文標點符號"
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves"@it
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots, & leaves"
  • "Cutting a dash"
  • "Yi ci xue hui ying wen biao dian fu hao"
  • "eats, shoots, and leaves"
  • "Punctuation"
  • "Eats shoots & leaves"@en

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  • "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."@en
  • "Text and humorous examples emphasize the need for correct punctuation in written communication."@en
  • "'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs."
  • "Illustrations show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely."@en
  • "See how using (or not using) a comma can change the meaning of a sentence."@en
  • "See how using (or not using) a comma can change the meaning of a sentence."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • ""Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now 'txt msgs, ' we have made proper punctuation an endangered species ... 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 ...""@en
  • "The zero tolerance approach to punctuation."@en
  • "For: Nancy Piscione Kohn."@en
  • "This work adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders to remove redundant apostrophes from signs."@en
  • "At front and back of book: Punctuation repair kit [stickers]."
  • "AT LONG LAST, A WORTHY TRIBUTE TO PUNCTUATION'S STEPCHILDREN: THE NEGLECTED SEMICOLON, THE ENIGMATIC ELLIPSIS AND THE MAD DASH."
  • "Lynne Truss, a self-proclaimed stickler, presents a humorous look at the history of punctuation, discussing the use and misuse of commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, and other punctuation marks."
  • "Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? The author 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."@en

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  • "Student collection"
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humor"@en
  • "Humor"
  • "Einführung"
  • "Humoristische Darstellung"
  • "Pictorial works"

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  • "Eats Shoots & Leaves"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves the zero toleration approach to punctuation"
  • "Jiao suo xiong mao kai qiang de "'" : yi ci xue hui Ying wen biao dian fu hao"
  • "Hier steht was alle suchen : eats, shoots and leaves ; englische und deutsche Interpunktion für alle, die zweisprachig lesen und schreiben"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : why, commas really DO make a difference!"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : cutting a dash: the Radio 4 series [on audiocassette]"
  • "Virgole per caso : tolleranza zero per gli errori di punteggiatura"@it
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves illustrated edition : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"@en
  • "Eats Shoots & Leaves s"
  • "教唆熊貓開槍的[,] : 一次學會英文標點符號 : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation = Eats, shoots & leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves"@en
  • "Eats shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero toleration approach to punctuation"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero toleration approach to punctuation"@en
  • "パンクなパンダのパンクチュエーション : 無敵の英語句読法ガイド"
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Eats, Shoots & Leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "教唆熊貓開槍的「'」 : 一次學會英文標點符號"
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves.: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "教唆熊貓開槍的"," : 一次學會英文標點符號 = Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Pankuna panda no pankuchuēshon : Muteki no eigo kutōhō gaido"@ja
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : why, commas really do make a difference!"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : why, commas really do make a difference!"@en
  • "Jiao suo xiong mao kai qiang de[,] : yi ci xue hui ying wen biao dian fu hao : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation = Eats, shoots & leaves"
  • "Panku na panda no pankuchueshon : Muteki no eigo kutoho gaido"
  • "Eats, shoots [and] leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves ; the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves ; the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Mŏkko, ssogo, t'winda = Eats, shoots & leaves"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"
  • "Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"@en
  • "Jiao suo xiong mao kai qiang de{272b56},{272b57} : yi ci xue hui ying wen biao dian fu hao"
  • "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"@en
  • "Eats, shoots and leaves for children : why, commas really do make a difference!"
  • "Virgole per caso : tolleranza zero per gli errori di punteggiatura!"
  • "教唆熊貓開槍的{272b56},{272b57} : 一次學會英文標點符號"
  • "EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES : THE ZERO TOLERANCE APPROACH TO PUNCTUATION"
  • "Jiao suo xiong mao kai qiang de "," : yi ci xue hui ying wen biao dian fu hao = Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation"

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