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Carregando... Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)de Lynne Truss
  
Female Author (223) Unread books (243) » 12 mais Books Read in 2006 (25) Read (64) Books Read in 2014 (1,654) Books Read in 2010 (177) Funny Books (9) Craft Books (3) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. bought at Bogie's and enjoyed every time I've picked it up - Feb 18, 2021 (  ) Overgaard | Feb 18, 2021 |  For someone who is obsessed with grammar like myself, this is a joy to read, full of humour and correct punctuation! (  ) OperaMan_22 | Feb 16, 2021 | This is a book about punctuation the ways people use it and how it improves writing told not just from a single straightforward perspective of some prescriptive rules humorous examples historical trends and future possibilities but rather from a mix of all of these it is a good book and much more entertaining a read than one might expect ( ) octal | Jan 1, 2021 | A humorous look at the ignorance of the masses with regard to grammatical faux pas. (  ) octoberdad | Dec 16, 2020 | Amusing exploration of the lore and usages of punctuation, forming an interesting counterpoint, in parts, to the book "Shady Characters." EricCostello | Dec 4, 2020 |
 The first punctuation mistake in “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma. It is a wild ride downhill from there.  When [Truss] stops straining at lawks-a-mussy chirpiness and analyzes punctuation malpractice, she is often persuasive  The passion and fun of her arguments are wonderfully clear. Here is someone with abiding faith in the idea that ''proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.'' Lynne Truss's book is (stay with this sentence, and remember the function of punctuation is to 'tango the reader into the pauses, inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken word would convey') as much an argument for clear thinking as it is a pedantic defence of obsolete conventions of written language. Has the (non-series) sequelTem a adaptaçãoÉ uma versão expandida deÉ parodiada emIs replied to in
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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