語言學

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
出版社： HarperCollins Publisher
書林書號：
20258832
作者：
Trusst, Lynne
定價：
450
會員價：
$383
ISBN：
9780007329069
出版年份：
2004
裝訂：
平裝
  • 本書介紹
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 semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love 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 subtle to be mucked about with.
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