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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
ISBN: 9781592402038
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smitty1e · 2026-03-26 · Original thread
There is a book "Eats Shoots and Leaves" that gets at the importance of knowing when (and when not) do deploy the punctuation:

https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...?

I also enjoy how meaning of a whole sentence can be inverted by a bit of punctuation:

a. "A woman without her man is nothing."

b. "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

> Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla and Google's parent company, Alphabet are named in the lawsuit

The comma misuse is legendary.

https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...

Fixed: Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla, and Google's parent company, Alphabet, are named in the lawsuit

joelg · 2016-11-22 · Original thread
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.

It's more humor than education, and more punctuation than grammar, but it's entertaining and sarcastic and very fun to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...

amiramir · 2016-08-08 · Original thread
I'm not sure if this is "correct" but "Eats, shoots & leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"[1] is a fun read on an adjacent topic. It too gets berated by some but I enjoyed it and learned a thing or two.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuat...

xianshou · 2013-03-13 · Original thread
It's not grammatical English, but nor are a variety of other constructs that we see as normal, such as "ain't no," or even "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun (this one matters only to sticklers). Convenience need not obey the rules. Would love to expand further if you are interested.

Also: http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuati...