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Summary: An underrated, misunderstood and ignored problem
Review: Does anyone else who really knows what they're talking about find it entertaining that the majority of negative reviews for this book contain punctuation errors?I'd also like to give Ms. Truss a hug for dressing down the movie title "Two Weeks Notice" in a television interview. Seeing that title made me cringe. Folks, there is no difference between where Brits and Americans are supposed to put a colon, a semicolon, a comma or an apostrophe. The humor may seem a little odd to some, but the information is solid. If the language bothers you that much, purchase both this book and a subscription to BBC America for some perspective.
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Summary: Pulls, Chains and Legs
Review: If you care about proper writing and are responsible for creating it--whether in legal briefs, novels, newspaper columns, or daily memos to the boss--you ought to take time to read this. In ten-minute doses, a few days will get you through it with ease and a contented smile. And starting a sentence with and is one thing she and I disagree about. But (and that's another) that doesn't detract from either the accuracy of her points or the sting of her barbs. I received it as a gift, but would have gladly paid three times the asking price to obtain a copy.
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Summary: step up for a rip off?
Review: This is the "Emperor's Clothes" in action. Recall that old fable about the Emperor getting new "clothes", which were actually nothing, but no one dared tell him he was running around in his birthday suit? This book and its power to aid anyone is made fo the same cloth as those imaginary clothes. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...Yanks, they are having one on you. If they really wanted to present a good work that actually helped, they could not take time to edit it for USA usage? Nope, they said, "Hey, the Yanks won't know the difference...."
Shame on the publisher for this farce, shame on Amazon for going along with it.
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Summary: Permission to Love
Review: Truss warns readers that it is reviews just like these that lead to the proliferatioin of mispunctuation. This book is an enjoyable read for anyone who has ever been confused over just where to place a comma, or the proper use of the semicolon. Truss offers up interesting tales of punctuation history with a sense of glee that is almost catching. Grammar snobs may turn their noses up at this Bestseller, but for the generally confused masses, it at least sparks the debate, which is what I suspect Ms Truss wants more than anything - to see puncuatioin live on indefinitely.
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Summary: Learn and Laugh
Review: These people who are knocking this book have no sense of humor. Lynne Truss
deserves a great deal of credit--she's written a useful book that's amusing as well as
instructive, and is making a lot of money off of it. Good for her! Yes, it's British, but the difference between US and Brit punctuation is mostly
insignificant; if some people get confused about quoted matter, that's a small price if
they also learn something about commas and semicolons. Get real. Ordinary people don't buy the AP stylebook. If they buy this and read it,
they'll probably learn something, and have a good time doing it.
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Summary: P T Barnum strikes again
Review: How easy it seems to be to fool people, with a book heavily hyped, about British punctuation and filled with errors and inconsistencies. Sort of amusing, but not very, and very, very wrong too much of the time. Kudos to the PR machine that created this - I only wish it had a sound basis in fact. Look to style guides, to Bill Walsh (The Elephants of Style), to Barbara Wallraff (Your Own Words), to the older Fowlers, to the AP Style Guide, the New York Times Style Guide. Save your money on this one - or give it to your favorite charity.
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Summary: forgetaboutit!!
Review: sorry, in this day and time, it's rather funny people are buying a book and pushing how great it is, when they do not know what is what, eh? Great for homeschooling? No, US homeschooling. Great for publishing? HUN? Don't think so. I know friends that are British and Canadian that write. They keep their WORD set to US spellchecker or their editors would scream. The best teachers I had in school were kind. A mad woman dashing about insulting poor shopkeepers (again with a different language maybe?) may make the writer feel superior, but it's disheartening that people would salute her for this lack of compassion and understanding for her fellow man. Some misses the big picture...no take that back, she get the BIG Bank Balance picture, while laughing at all of us.
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Summary: oh please! line up for sheep call?
Review: Wonder if the Brits would be so blind to rush out and buy a book that is on the American Income Taxes, just because some hiped-up press releases tell them it's great? I doubt it. Then why do I see Americas advising people here they MUST buy this book to learn to do it correctly? A book that cannot even get it correct on their own bookcover? It's zero-tolerance!!! Do they not bother to understand, this book was written for another country, that has many different punctuations? Hey...I've heard they have a super deal on the Brooklyn Bridge and a lot of land out there in Area 54.... This is so strange...
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Summary: PT Barnum said it...
Review: One born every minute. People in the United States are buying a British Grammar book and think they are learning something - one that is not so well done? Sorry, there are truly good works out there. This not one of them, not for UK, especially NOT for USA. Another case of flash over substance.
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Summary: Not relevant for US
Review: If they wanted to release this to US, they should have edited FOR the US. This will be teached things wrong, because there are differences. I can just image the fuss if the shoe was on the other foot and a book was released telling the British they were doing wrong and get with it by American standards. I suggest "The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed"
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (Author)
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