Business Standard

The Da Vinci code to life

Book review of How to Think like Da Vinci

Cover of How to Think Like Da Vinci. Credits: Amazon.in
Premium

Cover of How to Think Like Da Vinci. Credits: Amazon.in

Kanika Datta
Lynne Truss, author of that peerless book on grammar and usage titled Eats, Shoots and Leaves, attributed the decline of punctuation to the rising use of text messaging. She wrote this before the explosion of social media so you can guess that she must be trebly appalled today at the steady massacre of the English language. Grammar and punctuation are not the only casualties of the rise of the SMS, Twitter and WhatsApp schools of communication. Reading habits, too, have been altered so dynamically that any wordage beyond the scope of a limited set of characters has little chance of

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in