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Originally posted by ltl/fb
'There are many possible reasons for the tremendous success of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," a spritely volume that leads the reader through the valley of the shadow of comma splice; refers to the apostrophe as "our long-suffering little friend"; makes a rousing case for the semicolon's usefulness in, among other things, "calling a bunch of brawling commas to attention"; and describes Woodrow Wilson's inexplicable visceral hatred of the hyphen, which he called — spectacularly undermining his own argument — "the most un-American thing in the world."'
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Anyone else conjur up an image of Victor Borge*? Or am I dating myself? Bilmore?
*Victor Borge had a bit where he read a simple story and had cool sounds for all the punctuation marks.
