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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 and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.
Sticklers, unite!
"If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood." -Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes
" [Eats, Shoots & Leaves] makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
'"Correct usage' has been made sexy by Lynne Truss in her delightful Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the most entertaining work of paralinguistics since Shaw's...
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Fülszöveg
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 and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.
Sticklers, unite!
"If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood." -Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes
" [Eats, Shoots & Leaves] makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
'"Correct usage' has been made sexy by Lynne Truss in her delightful Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the most entertaining work of paralinguistics since Shaw's Pygmalion."
-John Sutherland, Financial Times
"Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty." -Entertainment Weekly
"[Truss is] a reformer with the soul of a stand-up comedian."- The Boston Globe
"Lynne Truss makes [punctuation] a joy to contemplate."—Elle
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