Truss 1

Trusst me. You WANT to read this!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/03/trusst_me_you_want_to_read_thi.html

The first of two...better get a move along beau!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/03/would_you_rather_see_dead_peop.html

Two of two...now go rest for a few.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/03/hear_bell_run_to_master_drool.html

"Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying 'Giant Kid's Playground', and then wonder why everyone else stays away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)" (Truss 41)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/03/using_grammar_is_essential_in.html

"The vast majority of concerned misplaced apostrophes" (Truss 49).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/03/babies_babys.html

'MI DEER JO I OPE U R KRWITE WELL I OPE I SHAL SON B HABELL 4 2 TEEDUE U JO AN THEN WE SHORL B SO GLOOD AN WEN I M PRENGTD 2 JO WOT LARX AN BELEVE ME INF XN PIP' (Truss 18).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/03/text_message_speak_not_a_new_i.html

"Only one significant task has been lifted from the apostrophe's workload in recent years: it no longer has to appear in the plurals of abbreviations ('MPs') or plural dates ('1980s')" (Truss 46).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/03/new_developments.html

Dr. Jerz, please delete the comment I posted above this one, the link does not work.

However, this one does.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/03/el150_what_a_lovely_little_pan.html

“Now, there are many people who claim that they do fully punctuate text messages.” (Lynne Truss, Eat, Shoots, & Leaves p18)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/03/punctuation_please.html

“The rule is: the word “it’s” (with apostrophe) stands for “it is” or “it has”. (Truss, Eats. Shoots, &Leaves, pg 43)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/03/the_rule_is_the_word.html

“A woman, without her man, is nothing.
“A woman: without her, man is nothing” (Truss 9).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/03/deja_vu_from_the_9th_grade_cau.html

"It's tough being a stickler for punctuation these days. One almost dare not get up in the mornings," (Truss, 2).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/03/a_stickler_for_grammar.html

"The confusion of the possessive 'its' (no apostrophe) with the contractive 'it's' (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and set off a simple Pavlovian 'kill' response in the average stickler. The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp," (Truss 43).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/03/the_dreaded_apostrophe.html

“In classical texts, it [the apostrophe] was used to mark dropped letters, as in t’cius for “tertius”; and when English printers adopted it, this was still its only function” (Truss 37).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/03/a_language_without_the_difficu.html

"What happened to punctuation? Why is it so disregarded when it is self-evidently so useful in preventing enormous mix ups?" (Truss 13)

"Isn't this sad? People who have been taught nothing about their own language are (contrary to educational exceptions) spending all their leisure hours attempting to string sentences together for the edification of others." (Truss 17)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/03/post_4.html

"Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop" (Truss 7).

READ ME BLOG
“We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation.” (Page 3)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/03/punctuation.html

“We had been taught Latin, French and German grammar; but English grammar was something we felt we were expected to infer from our reading…” (15 Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/03/english_what.html

Egg's.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/03/the_panda_says_no.html

"If this satanic of redundant apostrphes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once" (Truss 1).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/03/the_text_told_me_to_stop_readi.html

"Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's and Book's. If this santanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horor or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this books at once. By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happily equipped to live in a world of plummeting punctuation standards; but jsut don't bother to go any further (Truss 1)."

"Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground," and then wonder why everyone stays away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid) (Truss 41)."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/03/i_meanare_we_serious.

“But to get back to those dark-side-of-the-moon years in British education when teachers upheld the view that grammar and spelling got in the way of self-expression…” (Truss 16).

Not only is my boyfriend a member of the Anti-Punctuation Society, my employers are too!!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/03/punctuation_gets_personal.html

Jesus's disciples? Jesus' disciples? Truss's book?
Aww, here it goes:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/03/the_panda_says_idk.html

"Now, there are no laws against imprisoning apostrphes and making them look draft. Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegistlated" (Truss 36).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/03/i_dont_believe_anyone_has_been.html

i see dead things....

from Shakespeare to modern day authors....

"I know precisely when my own ...stickler personality started to get the better of me. In the autumn of 2002, I was making a series of programmes about punctuation for Radio 4 called Cutting a Dash."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/03/a_small_confession_i_actually.html

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves is not a book about grammar. I am not a grammarian. To me a subordinate clause will for ever be (since I heard the actor Martin Jarvis describe it thus) one of Santa's little helpers. A degree in English language is not a prerewuisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon...So if this book doesn't instruct about punctuation, what does it do? Well, you know those self-help books that five you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation."
-Frompages 32-33 of Eats, Shoorts & Leaves by Lynne Truss
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/03/it_is_a_puctuation_book_not_a.html

"Once the poor stepchild of grammar (is that comma OK here?), punctuation will emerge as the Cinderella of the English language" (Truss xi).

Hurry! We're going to miss the ball!http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/04/emotional_english.html

"There was a comical moment in the fifth year when our English teacher demanded, 'But you have had lessons in grammar?' and we all looked shifty, as if the fault were ours. We had been taught Latin, French and German grammar; but English grammar was something we felt we were expected to infer from our reading..." (Truss 14-15)

All hail the queen!http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/04/i_am_the_queen_of_spanish_verb.html