false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255656830m/8598.jpg 8598 2 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 e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss 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 Charlemagne 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 be mucked about with. 6681483 25 7 2006 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! total:293|5:108|4:123|3:48|2:12|1:2| 293 1202 414 59 4 1 false false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 20 20:37:07 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 19:22:03 -0800 2008 1 Synopsis: You might want to eat a huge hotdog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Just look inside to see how forgetting to include a comma or placing one in the wrong spot can completely change the meaning of a sentence--with hilarious conseque...more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 09:27:23 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:54:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:25:07 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:26:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 13:45:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 13:45:09 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 11 22:22:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 22:24:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 09:50:01 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:50:01 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 16 07:50:46 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:56:27 -0800 2009 The Girl's Like Spaghetti. both books have some really fun illustrations.

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