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Way Quotes by Lynne Truss
- The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
- Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his…
- The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have…
- We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;…
- For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process…
- Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive…
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