In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots...
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Jan 11, 2009
Elevate Difference
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Although I have a background in linguistics, where the first thing you learn is the futility of prescriptivism, I do love my language rules. I can’t stomach WalMart’s express lanes with ten items or less, I daily grind my teeth over an its/it's violations, and I’m one of those nerds who uses capitalization and punctuation in text messages. Therefore, reading Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play was tough on me. Jennifer DeVere Brody's rereading and redefining of punctuation made me push through m
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Jan 11, 2012
Rachel
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The first bit is mostly cute jargony wordplay for its own sake, but the later chapters on "Hyphen-nation" and "Queer Quotation Marks" are more interesting. Basically I liked it better the further I got in it.
Jan 08, 2009
Roy
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elegant, capacious, energetic, and hilarious, not to mention super smart.
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