Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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- ISBN13: 9781592402038
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A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Tether’s now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different tale. 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, ex- editor Tether dares to say, in her delightfully elegant, 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 like 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 devious to be mucked about with.
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I do not know how racist terms are amusing–even if claims to be “witty” and written to illustrate incorrect grammar. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned this? See Page 51– “N-word’s out…” The grammatical point is beside the point. Racist language is far more offensive than comma misplacement!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have not yet read the substance of this book, though I have ordered it. But in reading reviews of it as well as descriptions of the content, I am enormously impressed. As a senior psychologist now having done professional work for 46 years it is axiomatic to me that human beings, while being emotionally neurotic and even psychotic in a variety of ways, inevitably also have enormous difficulties with REALITY. (As of course do all living organisms.) (To counter the absurd thought that “no one really knows what REALITY is” I offer the simple definition: REALITY is “what exists.”) In this regard it is language — including words, meanings, concepts, punctuation — which help our brains know and interpret external (and internal) REALITY. The more precise and accurately we use language, in its various forms, the more effective we may potentially be in dealing with the difficulties of what has been called our being-in-the-world. This book, obviously appealing and written with fantastic charm, has an additional and unusually vital value in calling our attention to the difficulties of perceiving, understanding and interpreting REALITY — so that we, as human beings, may be more self-benefiting and less self-defeating. Even before reading it fully, I can say I LOVE this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The jacket of the UK edition has the same punctuation as the American edition! Just look at Amazon UK.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I am sorry that I followed the hype in the UK when this came out. It is a cute read for British English but gets tiresome quick.
The Sunday NY Times review place it better than I could -too late – I’d bought it – the book is unfunny and, to my shock, unhelpful – in fact, incorrect, since it is British punctuation and of small help in the US. I’ll save it for my next trip to the UK.
While nice to punctuate properly, it’s better to have something to say and say it with skill and grace.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book was in brilliant condition. I appreciated the fact that it was mailed in a very timely fashion
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5