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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[sui66iy.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, if you type "zero tolerance" into Amazon's search box, only one of the top ten titles presented contains a hyphen. (Adding the hyphen to the search expression does not change this.)

This is consistent with the Wikipedia's claim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen) that most advertising and labeling eschews use of the hyphen in favor of visual cleanliness.

(The comma thing was obviously intentional. The whole point is to attract the attention of grammar sticklers such as yourself.)