| Titre : |
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Truss, Lynne, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New York : Gotham Books |
| Année de publication : |
©2003 |
| Importance : |
xxvii, 209 p. |
| Format : |
19 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-59240-087-4 |
| Note générale : |
Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Comma
English language--Punctuation
|
| Index. décimale : |
PE 1450 |
| Résumé : |
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 email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and |
| Note de contenu : |
Foreword / Frank McCourt --
Publisher's note --
Preface --
Introduction: Seventh sense --
Tractable apostrophe --
That'll do, comma --
Airs and graces --
Cutting a dash --
Little used punctuation mark --
Merely conventional signs --
Bibliography. |
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation [texte imprimé] / Truss, Lynne, Auteur . - New York : Gotham Books, ©2003 . - xxvii, 209 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN : 978-1-59240-087-4 Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books. Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Comma
English language--Punctuation
|
| Index. décimale : |
PE 1450 |
| Résumé : |
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 email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and |
| Note de contenu : |
Foreword / Frank McCourt --
Publisher's note --
Preface --
Introduction: Seventh sense --
Tractable apostrophe --
That'll do, comma --
Airs and graces --
Cutting a dash --
Little used punctuation mark --
Merely conventional signs --
Bibliography. |
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