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 civilization... 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 transforming "horor"
into "horror," "it's" into "its," and "coconunut" into "coconut."
But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing
the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower. The
government charged them with defacing federal property and summoned
them to court--with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they
had violated "criminal statues." Now the press turned these
paragons of punctuation into "grammar vigilantes," airing errors
about their errant errand..
The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though. 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 literacy--and the importance of always taking a second
look.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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