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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail, and now 'txt msgs,' our modern society has made proper punctuation an endangered species.  Former editor Lynne Truss asserts with Eats, Shoots & Leaves that now is the time to take a serious look at commas and semicolons to see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are.

A book or people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled, Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a lively history that makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.