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• Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
• The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
• Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
• The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we…
• The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
• Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…
• As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…
• Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
• Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
• As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely…
• I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was…

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