was she trying for irony?

[cellio]

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation sounds like a great book for grammar nerds, but I am put off somewhat by the 1.5 punctuation errors in the title. (One is debatable and might be excused by context (it refers to a joke containing the phrase); the other is clearly wrong.)

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[gnomi.livejournal.com]

She's British, so for her it may not be an error.

Actually, one of the complaints I read about the American printing of the book was that there was no introduction added to explain the differences between American and British English grammar.

[cellio]

She's British, so for her it may not be an error.

Hmm, I hadn't considered that. I know that the missing comma is controversial, but I didn't realize there might be a flavor of English that permits the missing hyphen. (I hope anyone with direct experience will speak up.)

Yeah, if there are grammar differences and they published it here without any hints to that effect, I'd probably be frustrated too.

[ironangel]

I know that the missing comma is controversial

Both formats are now equally acceptable. We went several rounds on this on in my technical writing class. No clue on the hypen, though. :)

And you can hear her in person tomorrow

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

On morning edition on NPR.

My favorite line of the clip was

"Those old things over there are my husbands"