Quote:Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss
The bestseller on punctuation discusses how the poor use of apostrophes in public writing can alter meaning, while also shedding light on other commonly misused punctuation, from commas and colons to dashes.
I really liked this book. It made me laugh. It made me laugh out loud at a table at MaryAnn's Mexican on the Upper West Side where I was waiting for the rest of the dinner group to arrive. I laughed so loudly that the woman at the next table asked me just what it was I was reading. I showed her the book, her dinner companion looked at it too, I went back to reading, they returned to eating. I finished it before ordering a second margarita, (the others were very late)
They did arrive and we had a fun dinner. As the couple at the next table rose to go, the woman turned to me and said "I'm going to look for that book." "No, " I said, "I just finished it, please, take this copy." And she did.
Which is why there are several errors in the above paragraph as to the position and frequency of commas.
Joe(I read it, but I didn't learn it.")Nation
