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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[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Um, not sure. I know that items in a list must be separated by a comma unless there's an and, but your example is properly two separate things so I think it could go either way.

Having said that, despite having picked up a very keen sense of grammar over the years I didn't get much formal tuition in it, so the finer points sometimes elude me, time to reach for Fowler's English Grammar and Usage for a definitive version!