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. This is the book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. The beautifully simple pictures are a sweet, kid- and parent-appealing blend of comic-strip style and fine art the cast of children depicted is commendably multiethnic. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion - and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with." If there are only pendants left who care, then so be it. 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. "Pansy's ready," we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she?"), as we browse among the bedding plants. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss 4.1 (64) Paperback (Reprint) 18.00 Hardcover 17.99 Paperback 18.00 eBook 13.99 Audiobook 0. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe, "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. 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.
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