Sunday, November 14, 2004

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For those of you who still do not know what 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation' is all about, here's the enlightenment:

A panda eats shoots and leaves.
A panda eats, shoots and leaves.


See the major difference in meaning with and without the pretty curl? What would the world be without the necessary dots and stops, dashes and slashes?



I don't know about you, but I am a stickler for punctuation, though not an expert yet; I so love Lynn Truss' wit and humor, I finished it in a week. Read it.

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