All trussed up
March 25th 2007 09:41
I’m told that the book, Eats Leaves and Shoots (or is it Leaves Shoots and Eats, or, Shoots, Eats and Leaves?) is the book everybody has given someone else for Christmas, but in fact is the one that very few people have actually read.
I began it and wondered what all the fuss was about. The author, Lynne Truss, goes on at length about the apostrophe, and punctuation, but I think she’s speaking to an audience who isn’t listening. Pedantics, like me, have long since decided that the apostrophe issue, most of all, isn’t worth making any more fuss about. It isn’t the students leaving school who are the problem, it’s the teachers teaching them. These people mostly don’t have a clue about proper punctuation, and couldn’t care less, and so the rot is so thoroughly set in that it’s unlikely this issue will be dealt with in this generation.
Down the track, maybe, someone will start a real revolution over it, and it’ll all be sorted out. In the meantime, there are greater things in life to worry about – and I say that as a person who is particular about how things are punctuated.
Meanwhile, if you want to check out what I wrote on the fact that we don’t apostrophise in speech, so why is it such an issue on paper, check this article out.
I began it and wondered what all the fuss was about. The author, Lynne Truss, goes on at length about the apostrophe, and punctuation, but I think she’s speaking to an audience who isn’t listening. Pedantics, like me, have long since decided that the apostrophe issue, most of all, isn’t worth making any more fuss about. It isn’t the students leaving school who are the problem, it’s the teachers teaching them. These people mostly don’t have a clue about proper punctuation, and couldn’t care less, and so the rot is so thoroughly set in that it’s unlikely this issue will be dealt with in this generation.
Down the track, maybe, someone will start a real revolution over it, and it’ll all be sorted out. In the meantime, there are greater things in life to worry about – and I say that as a person who is particular about how things are punctuated.
Meanwhile, if you want to check out what I wrote on the fact that we don’t apostrophise in speech, so why is it such an issue on paper, check this article out.
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