Our familiar friends (or enemies, depending upon you preferences) the apostrophe, the comma, the period, the semicolon, and the colon are joined by brackets, hyphens, quotation marks, and a couple of marks you’ve probably never heard of. Summary: In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynn Truss presents an entertaining how-to guide for punctuation in the modern age. Origin: No idea…I must’ve seen it mentioned somewhere. Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves – The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.” (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: p201 ) Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. “We have a language that is full of ambiguities we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and allusive, poetic and modulated all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places.
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