01772cam a2200289 4500 425401998 TxAuBib 20050215120000.0 130306|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781592400874 1592400876 (OCoLC)317647525 TxAuBib Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation / Lynne Truss. New York, N. Y : Gotham Books, 2003. ©2004. New York, N. Y : Gotham Books, c. 2004, 2003. xxvii ; 209 p. ; 20 cm. Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. Includes bibliographical references. 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, Shoot & Leaves, former editor Lyynn Tuss 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 Charlemangne 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 mucked about with. 20070713. English language Punctuation. Punctuation. TXGID