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Lädt ... Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Original 2003; 2004. Auflage)von Lynne Truss (Autor)
Werk-InformationenEats, Shoots and Leaves - Bärenstark in Zeichensetzung. Englische & deutsche Interpunktion von Lynne Truss (2003)
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Female Author (215) » 12 mehr Unread books (251) 2000s decade (66) Read (94) Books Read in 2014 (1,936) Books Read in 2010 (311) Funny Books (9) Craft Books (3) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() Seldom have I felt so much second-hand embarrassment reading anything. Truss' pedantry is only matched by her ignorance of the language she purports to protect. This is just a sad, elitist, and pretentious book tailor-made for people who have nothing better to do than to feel better than others by uncritically adhering to trivial and largely arbitrary rules of style. It is full of opinions that betray a worrying lack of empathy toward the ordinary Briton and a lot of the author's "witticisms" sound either lame or deranged. I have quite literally thrown this one in the trash and I really hope no soul picks it up on its way to the incinerator.
The first punctuation mistake in “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma. It is a wild ride downhill from there. When [Truss] stops straining at lawks-a-mussy chirpiness and analyzes punctuation malpractice, she is often persuasive The passion and fun of her arguments are wonderfully clear. Here is someone with abiding faith in the idea that ''proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.'' Lynne Truss's book is (stay with this sentence, and remember the function of punctuation is to 'tango the reader into the pauses, inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken word would convey') as much an argument for clear thinking as it is a pedantic defence of obsolete conventions of written language. Hat die (nicht zu einer Reihe gehörende) FortsetzungBearbeitet/umgesetzt inIst eine erweiterte Ausgabe vonWird parodiert inWird beantwortet inAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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