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Article: Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.(Book Review)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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EATS SHOOTS & LEAVES: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation BY LYNNE TRUSS GOTHAM 2004, 209 PAGES, $17.50
Lynne Truss styles herself a "stickler," and what she stickles about is the punctuational anarchy she encounters everywhere. Confusion of "its" and "it's" seems epidemic, and commas are all too commonly used to splice independent clauses. Truss, a British journalist and editor, offers a droll but tenacious defense of proper markings in proper places. "No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place," wrote Ukranian journalist Isaac Babel. Truss despairs that we are living in a period in which ignorance and indifference have ...
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...Byline: Hannah Stephenson Lynne Truss has made a mint out of being a stickler ... her little book about punctuation - Eats, Shoots & Leaves - became a surprise runaway ... radio, who also wrote books, before Eats, Shoots & Leaves sold three million copies ...
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