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The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Gotham
August 2006
On Sale: August 1, 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 1592402038
EAN: 9781592402038
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
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.
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