If it can do that, it must be REALLY good

I will admit to being a fan of grammar. Although you may not be able to tell it from my writing, I enjoy as much as the next guy a good discussion about the merits (which are many) and demerits (which are few) of starting a sentence with "and" or "but." But, I've never thought about punctuation being very interesting. Until now. A new book, available in the UK, but unavailable at Amazon (if you can believe it), apparently has this effect:

Most of all, it makes you love punctuation; you want to conserve what is still left and perhaps even call for more of it. Is it time to campaign for the British to adopt the Spanish upside-down question mark, which appears as an advance warning of a sentence with a query in it? Should we demand more tildes?

That's pretty impressive work.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 12:53 PM