Here’s an excerpt from the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. Thanks for lending us the book, bluedog! Or is it our Christmas gift?
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, [typoze] really do matter, even if they’re only occasionally matters of life and death.
Typoze’s reigning typo hunter, Deletia, shares her thoughts on the Kindle. I’ve been reading with my Kindle for about a month now, so I’m becoming familiar with its strengths and weaknesses. I [Read More]
For anyone that watched the GOP debate a couple of weeks ago may have noticed something.
Thanks to Typoze member Deletia for spotting this error. Can you spot the error?
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