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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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I was taught early on that both were correct and a matter of personal preference. (The idea of organization-dependent "style guides" wasn't introduced until ... junior high school, I think.)

So early on, being into the precision and consistency thing, I adopted the veresion with more commas.