Re: Yelling "OH FSM" well making woopie works like cold water on a weewee
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:07 am
Big Wallaby wrote:Have you read the book Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation?
No, but I just looked it up and it sounds like I would love it. I took a course this summer as a b/s elective to lighten my load next semester (graduation semester...plus it was to help with my GRE) on logic and language. The fallacy of accent (or is it amphiboloy?? Could be either I think) in the title of "eats shoots" is intriguing before I even open it. I am assuming the irony in that is that bad punctuation can cause a number of fallacious meanings when taken out of context.
I will definitely be picking that one up!