Making a Point Quotes

“Faced with the sentence therapistsneedspecialtreatment we need to know if this is a text about sex crimes or about speech pathology before we can correctly read it aloud.”
― David Crystal, Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

“Information is always being left out, therefore, when speech is written down. And conversely, information is always being added when a written text is spoken aloud.”
― David Crystal, Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

“And there are even more unusual cases in poetry, where the observation that parentheses include content of secondary importance needs to be turned on its head. In a poem, what is within the parentheses is always significant -- often more so than in the surrounding text.”
― David Crystal, Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

“It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of reading aloud in the liturgy of the church. In Catholic Christianity of the time, the ‘liturgy of the Word’ ranked alongside the ‘liturgy of the Eucharist’ – as indeed it still does. The”
― David Crystal, Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation