Punctuation

[MartinLiss]

I recently bought an interesting, humorous, book on punctuation (I know that doesn't sound possible but it is) called Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The title comes from this remarkable play on words.

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires 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.

[penagate]

This is a famous book. I haven't read it, but I should go to my local library some day and pick up a copy (along with 1984, from the surveillance cameras thread ).

[kfcSmitty]

Heh, I actually just made a little script in domino for book reviews n such and the review for this week was Eats, Shoots and Leaves


there is a review for it at

http://notesbus.queensu.ca/CommerceO...ommprogram.nsf

[MartinLiss]

This is a famous book. I haven't read it, but I should go to my local library some day and pick up a copy (along with 1984, from the surveillance cameras thread ).

Yes it's a New York Times #1 Bestseller.

[timeshifter]

Sounds like the kind of book a literal thinker like myself could thoroughly enjoy.

[Static]

Im currently enjoying.. uncle johns gigantic bathroom reader. Its great.. flip it open to any page.. learn something..

of course.. I tend to only read it for a bout 10 mins at a time

[mendhak]

Yes it's a New York Times #1 Bestseller.

If you'll look carefully, all books are always #1 bestsellers.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That one looks pretty entertaining, though. I'll have to get it.

[MartinLiss]

That one looks pretty entertaining, though. I'll have to get it.

You can probably use it

[plenderj]

Mendhak I like your avatar. Tell me more

[Shaggy Hiker]

You can probably use it

Oh, I know it!!

[InvisibleDuncan]

You can probably use it

Shaggy Hiker's post was correctly punctuated... unlike yours, which was missing a full stop.

[FunkyDexter]

I didn't read the book but I did listen to the audion version in my car. It was really very good and I now feel confident enought to use the ocasional semi colon. Annoyingly I can't think of a good reason to do so in this post.

She points out that the sign 'No dogs please' is patently incorrect. We all quite like RobDog.

[Guru]

I've got the book and I wasn't impressed; there is a number of inexcusable errors in it.

[Hack]

I've got the book and I wasn't impressed; there is a number of inexcusable errors in it.

As opposed to a number of excusable errors?

[Merrion]

As opposed to a number of excusable errors?

Warnings, as my compiler would call them.

Incidentally, as this appears to be a book recomendations thread can i add "Code: The hidden language of Computer hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold?

[plenderj]

No; you may not.

[Merrion]

I said "can", not "may".
Evidently I can (and did)

[plenderj]

You know, as I was posting that, I thought to myself the very same thing, but I didn't think you'd be as anal as I

[Static]

Ive never, had, [ANY] punctuation problems. with my wr'iting- not sure if a :book; like that would. do me any' good what'so-ever.

nowapropergrammerandspellingbookwouldbemorealongmylines.