19 Mar 2007
Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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YAY for Punctuation!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Ho hum," you say, or, if you're American, "Big deal." Very Well. You're entitled to your ignorance, but pause a moment, dear reader, and imagine this page of...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Ho hum," you say, or, if you're American, "Big deal." Very Well. You're entitled to your ignorance, but pause a moment, dear reader, and imagine this page of...
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Guilty As Charged
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Introduction: page 20 The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Punctuation herds words together, keeps others...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Introduction: page 20 The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Punctuation herds words together, keeps others...
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Humor in the Punctuation Mess
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Punctuation for the People
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Left to the berks, the English language would 'die of impurity, like late Latin'. Left to the wankers, it would die instead of purity, 'like medieval Latin'."...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Left to the berks, the English language would 'die of impurity, like late Latin'. Left to the wankers, it would die instead of purity, 'like medieval Latin'."...
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Possessive People
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Current guides to punctuation (including that ultimate authority, Fowler's Modern English Usage) state that with modern names ending "s" (including biblical names, and any foreign...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Current guides to punctuation (including that ultimate authority, Fowler's Modern English Usage) state that with modern names ending "s" (including biblical names, and any foreign...
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I'm undecided!
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Do you Punctuate Text Messages!?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Now, there are many people who claim they do fully punctuate text messages. For cutting a Dash, we asked people in the street if they used proper puncatuation...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Now, there are many people who claim they do fully punctuate text messages. For cutting a Dash, we asked people in the street if they used proper puncatuation...
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Properly Punctuated
Excerpt: "In other words, punctuation keeps sense on the rails"Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: "In other words, punctuation keeps sense on the rails"Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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How True
Excerpt: To be fair, many people who couldn't punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro...
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Excerpt: To be fair, many people who couldn't punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro...
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Panda Bears
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Mmm Mmm Good Food
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked...
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Punctuation Frenzy
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An unsettling reality
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) The fact that these people are sometimes editors of national newspapers and Oxford intellectuals is just an indication of how low our society's intellectual aspirations have sunk. ...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) The fact that these people are sometimes editors of national newspapers and Oxford intellectuals is just an indication of how low our society's intellectual aspirations have sunk. ...
Weblog: EllenEinsporn
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A lost art of study...
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Send back e-mails that are badly punctuated; return letters, picket Harrods. Who cares if members of your family abhor your Inner Stickler and devoutly wish you had an...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Send back e-mails that are badly punctuated; return letters, picket Harrods. Who cares if members of your family abhor your Inner Stickler and devoutly wish you had an...
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Turkey! No, I lied.
Excerpt: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Dr. Jerz,
Can you post the page numbers for this reading?
Thanks
Posted by: Ellen at March 16, 2007 12:18 PMDr. Jerz, since I have games on both Monday and Wednesday, do you think you could also post the page numbers for the assigned reading for Wednesday as well? Thank you!
Posted by: Margaret Jones at March 16, 2007 2:18 PMOkay, I've added Friday's readings, too.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at March 16, 2007 4:00 PMThanks!
Posted by: Ellen at March 16, 2007 8:08 PMPost a comment
