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020			_a9781861976123
082			_223 _a428.2 TRU
100			_aTruss, Lynne
245		0	_aEats, shoots & leaves _b : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation _c/ Lynne Truss
260			_aLondon _b: Profile Books _c, 2003
300			_a209 p.
520			_aThrough sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book or people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, 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.
650			_aNon-Fiction, Reference
650			_a Linguistics
650			_a Education
942			_cRBK
999			_c68632 _d68632