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I have now to deliver on my promise to you.
Welcome out today's guest Lynne Truss, an English author, journalist, novelist, radio broadcaster, former editor and dramatist and her bestseller "Eats, shoots & leaves". Lynne is arguably best known for her championing of correctness and aesthetics in the English language.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (published in 2003) is a non-fiction book. In it Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. The interesting fact is that he author dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters. 😉
👇 Below you can find the joke from the cover of the book.
🐼 A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots & leaves."
We've got something of the kind in that old cartoon about Vovka, haven't we?
The book is not just a piece of comedy and ridicule, however, and Truss has plenty to offer on the question of proper grammar usage.
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.
It is high time we looked at our commas and semicolons and saw them as the wonderful and necessary things they are!
Not surprisingly, there's even an IELTS academic reading topic based on Eats, Shoots and Leaves. 😉
My question is if you are a stickler for punctuation as Tuss and I are or not.
Let me know the answer in the comments.
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19 июня 2023