Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Couverture rigide

Truss, Lynne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861976127 ISBN 13 : 9781861976123

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action. A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. 'Large black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.' We see signs in shops every day for "Banana's" and even "Gateaux's". Competition rules remind us: "The judges decision is final." Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe; the comma; the semi-colon. These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those! Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Do not accept sloppy emails. Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in "Video's sold here".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lynne Truss is one of Britain's top comic writers and is the author of the number one bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It has sold over three million copies worldwide and won the British Book of the Year award in 2004. She has also written four comic books, Going Loco, Making the Cat Laugh, Tennyson's Gift and With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, all available from Profile Books. She is a regular presenter on Radio 4, a Times columnist and a guest presenter for many other programmes. She lives in Brighton.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A panda walks into a cafe. He order a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and and fires two shots in the air.

Why? asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a baldy punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

I m a panda, he says, at the door. Look it up.

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

This is the zero tolerance guide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861976127
• ISBN 13: 9781861976123
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: PROFILE BOOKS; https://profilebooks.com/; ; 3 Holford Yard, Bevin Way; London; WC1X9HD; Royaume-Uni
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