23 Mar 2007
Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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Different Places, Different Writing Styles
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) It is worth pointing out, though, that American usage has retained a lot of the formal niceties that we have dropped. They also often use a colon after...
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Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) It is worth pointing out, though, that American usage has retained a lot of the formal niceties that we have dropped. They also often use a colon after...
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Tracked: March 18, 2007 2:35 PM
YAY!!!!!
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Some of You Might Want to Tape My Mouth Shut After You Read This
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Most of us can't remember a time before we learned to punctuate. We perhaps remember learning to read and spell, but not the moment when we found out...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 3:18 AM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Most of us can't remember a time before we learned to punctuate. We perhaps remember learning to read and spell, but not the moment when we found out...
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Tracked: March 20, 2007 3:18 AM
A nicely-hyphenated blog entry
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A re-formed rock band is quite different from a reformed one. Likewise, a long-standing friend is different from a long standing one. A cross-section of the public is...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 3:30 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A re-formed rock band is quite different from a reformed one. Likewise, a long-standing friend is different from a long standing one. A cross-section of the public is...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 3:30 PM
This was funny!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Everyone knows the exclamation mark- or exclamatory point, as it is known in America. It comes at the end of a sentence, is unignorable and hopelessly heavy-handed, and...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 11:49 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Everyone knows the exclamation mark- or exclamatory point, as it is known in America. It comes at the end of a sentence, is unignorable and hopelessly heavy-handed, and...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 11:49 PM
Extinction
Excerpt: In the old days, we used to ask the following question a lot: "One word? Two words? Hyphenated?" With astonishing speed, the third alternative is just disappearing, and I have heard that people with double-barrelled names are simply unable to...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 11:56 PM
Excerpt: In the old days, we used to ask the following question a lot: "One word? Two words? Hyphenated?" With astonishing speed, the third alternative is just disappearing, and I have heard that people with double-barrelled names are simply unable to...
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Tracked: March 21, 2007 11:56 PM
This Makes More Sense
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "But when the question is posed by the sentence rather than by the speaker, logic demands that the question mark goes outside the inverted commas: Why didn't Sophia...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 11:09 AM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "But when the question is posed by the sentence rather than by the speaker, logic demands that the question mark goes outside the inverted commas: Why didn't Sophia...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 11:09 AM
The enemy of grammar?
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 8:44 PM
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 8:44 PM
Words Change over Time!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "When you consider that fifty years ago it was correct to hyphenate Oxford Street as "Oxford-street", or "tomorrow" as "to-morrow", you can't help feeling that prayer for eventual...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 8:58 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "When you consider that fifty years ago it was correct to hyphenate Oxford Street as "Oxford-street", or "tomorrow" as "to-morrow", you can't help feeling that prayer for eventual...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 8:58 PM
Interrobang!?
Excerpt: "Before the advent of the internet, our punctuation system was very conservative about admitting new marks; indeed, it held out for decades with a newfangled and rather daft symbol called the 'interrobang' (invented in 1962) tried to infiltrate the sys...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:05 PM
Excerpt: "Before the advent of the internet, our punctuation system was very conservative about admitting new marks; indeed, it held out for decades with a newfangled and rather daft symbol called the 'interrobang' (invented in 1962) tried to infiltrate the sys...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:05 PM
Reflection up to p.67
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) My English teachers, no matter what the grade level, would always sneak in a grammar lesson. So the apostrophe and its uses were not new to me. In...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:35 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) My English teachers, no matter what the grade level, would always sneak in a grammar lesson. So the apostrophe and its uses were not new to me. In...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:35 PM
Taken For Granted
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Reflection on pages 132-204
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Overall, Eats, Shoots and Leaves was a very helpful book. It was nice to read that the citizens of the United States of American still write formally. I...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:56 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Overall, Eats, Shoots and Leaves was a very helpful book. It was nice to read that the citizens of the United States of American still write formally. I...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 9:56 PM
If I Were A Punctuation Mark, I Think I Would Be An Exclamation Point!!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "In humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald-that well-known knockabout gag-man-said it was like laughing at your own jokes)...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 10:27 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "In humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald-that well-known knockabout gag-man-said it was like laughing at your own jokes)...
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Tracked: March 22, 2007 10:27 PM
How does she write?
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "I never could bring myself to use a question mark, I always found it positively revolting, and now very few do use it." Gertrude Stein pg 144 "Gertrude...
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Tracked: March 23, 2007 9:38 AM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "I never could bring myself to use a question mark, I always found it positively revolting, and now very few do use it." Gertrude Stein pg 144 "Gertrude...
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Tracked: March 23, 2007 9:38 AM
It really does.
Excerpt: Doesn't it feel good to know this, though? It does. It really does. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:02 PM
Excerpt: Doesn't it feel good to know this, though? It does. It really does. Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:02 PM
Louder!
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "In forty years he has had no reason to use an exclamation mark! He has no idea what it is for." (133) I chose that particular quote because...
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Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:18 PM
Excerpt: Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "In forty years he has had no reason to use an exclamation mark! He has no idea what it is for." (133) I chose that particular quote because...
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Tracked: April 3, 2007 11:18 PM
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