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Frumkes, Lewis

 
9780595002429: Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough
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ISBN 10 : 0595002420 ISBN 13 : 9780595002429
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

DON'T STOP WITH THE PERIOD The richness of English comes from its enormous vocabularyupward of a million words. But how many punctuation marks are available to help communicate all the subtlety and nuances of the language? A piddling handful of tired, overworked dots, dashes, and devices that fall short when it comes to delivering the written word as the writer intended it. Metapunctuation, the product of the brilliant if somewhat askew mind of Lewis Burke Frumkes, adds the absent flair and precision, ends ambiguity, and makes manifest all of English's unspoken jabs, frowns, inflections, passions, and innuendos with marks such as: phobic brackets to enclose fear gone wildly out of control infatuation marks to indicate a frivolous kind of love ring of indignation to really let 'em have it pasion waves for prose ranging from purple to blue contempto-drips for utter disdain

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Présentation de l'éditeur

DON'T STOP WITH THE PERIOD The richness of English comes from its enormous vocabularyupward of a million words. But how many punctuation marks are available to help communicate all the subtlety and nuances of the language? A piddling handful of tired, overworked dots, dashes, and devices that fall short when it comes to delivering the written word as the writer intended it. Metapunctuation, the product of the brilliant if somewhat askew mind of Lewis Burke Frumkes, adds the absent flair and precision, ends ambiguity, and makes manifest all of English's unspoken jabs, frowns, inflections, passions, and innuendos with marks such as: phobic brackets to enclose fear gone wildly out of control infatuation marks to indicate a frivolous kind of love ring of indignation to really let 'em have it pasion waves for prose ranging from purple to blue contempto-drips for utter disdain

Biographie de l'auteur

Lewis Burkes Frumkes is a writer/humorist/teacher/broadcaster. In addition to the many books he's written his writing has appeared in many venues, including Harper's, Punch and the New York Times. He has taught Humanities at Marymount Manhattan College and Harvard University. He lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595002420
ISBN 13 
9780595002429
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780440212706: Metapunctuation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0440212707 ISBN 13 :  9780440212706
Editeur : Dell Pub Co, 1993
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