Eats Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss

Eats Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2003 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86197-612-3 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
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A guide to perfect punctuation for those who care about precise writing.
A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action. A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. 'Large black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.' We see signs in shops every day for "Banana's" and even "Gateaux's". Competition rules remind us: "The judges decision is final." Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe; the comma; the semi-colon. These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those! Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Do not accept sloppy emails. Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in "Video's sold here".

Lynne Truss is one of Britain's top comic writers and is the author of the number one bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It has sold over three million copies worldwide and won the British Book of the Year award in 2004. She has also written four comic books, Going Loco, Making the Cat Laugh, Tennyson's Gift and With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, all available from Profile Books. She is a regular presenter on Radio 4, a Times columnist and a guest presenter for many other programmes. She lives in Brighton.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.11.2003
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 134 x 194 mm
Gewicht 305 g
Themenwelt Kinder- / Jugendbuch Spielen / Lernen Sprachen
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10 1-86197-612-7 / 1861976127
ISBN-13 978-1-86197-612-3 / 9781861976123
Zustand Neuware
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