Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those!. These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe the comma the semi-colon.
Competition rules remind us: The judges decision is final. Eats, shoots and leaves.'.We see signs in shops every day for Banana's and even Gateaux's. 'Large black and white mammal native to China. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter.
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