So I was re-reading my previous blog, and it is shamefully filled with various punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. Fuck, I think this is why I gave up blogging before. My OCD self will not allow any sort of error in my writing, and this requires me to re-read all my post in order to spot and correct any missed errors. Anyways, my blog title is in reference to a famous book about how so many writing rules are now so loosely applied, and it is called...
Eats, Shoots and Leave: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Genius. An interesting fact about the book is that the title was derived from a joke which goes like this:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual, and tosses it over his shoulder.
'Well, I'm a panda', he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
With the incorrect use of punctuation, the entire meaning of the description has changed. The correct punctuation is '
Eats shoots and leaves," meaning pandas eat shoots and leaves, which are in essence, plants. However, because of poor punctuation, the connotation of the sentence is completely thrown off, and instead of pandas eating "plants," they eat, shoot (a gun) and leave (the room/restaurant). Interesting isn't it? Or not. Hahaha. I guess my inner nerd is seeking for a place to speak.
LN LU
