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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[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Before I moved to Atlanta, I was working at an energy consultancy outside of Boston. I tried and tried while I was there to convince my boss & my colleagues that consistency of style was important in our publications. They thought I was a bit dotty, but once a copy editor, always a copy editor. It made me cringe a little to see that these people (all experts in their field) were prone to occasional displays of rather shaky grammar and syntax. Nevertheless, what they wrote was never as bad as some of the academic weirdness that my husband runs into at work (i.e., Emory U.).