The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.
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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: â€œNO TRESSPASSING.â€ In that moment, his greater purpose became clear.Â Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationâ€¦ and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.
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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 transforming horor into horror, itâ€™s into its, and coconunut into coconut.
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But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower.Â The government charged them with defacing federal propertyÂ and summoned them to courtâ€”with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated â€œcriminal statues.â€ Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into â€œgrammar vigilantes,â€ airing errors about their errant errand..
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The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though.Â Â Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacyâ€”and the importance of always taking a second look.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-10-04
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780307591081

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-10-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780307591081

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

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