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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by

Lynne Truss,

Frank McCourt (Foreword)

David's review

Jul 25, 2007

did not like it

I really don't see what all the fuss was about this book--the author didn't seem particularly knowledgeable, and her "zero-tolerance" approach seems to do more to promote intolerance than to promote clarity.

In particular, her distaste for "emoticons" seems entirely inconsistent with her fascination with the origins of punctuation--it's as if she thinks of punctuation as a dead thing that _used to be_ alive, but now she doesn't want anyone to disturb the corpse.

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