The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends...
Description: The signs of the times are missing apostrophes. The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no...
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(08/04/10) Description: The signs of the times are missing apostrophes. The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: "NO TRESSPASSING." In that moment, his greater purpose became clear. Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationhellip; and only he could wield the marker to defeat them. Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforminghororintohorror,itrs"sintoits, andcoconunutintococonut. But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American...See less