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Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
Harmony Books
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0307591077
EAN: 9780307591074
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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: βNO TRESSPASSING.β In that moment, his greater purpose became clear. Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationβ¦ 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, itβs 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 courtβwith a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated βcriminal statues.β Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into βgrammar vigilantes,β 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 literacyβand the importance of always taking a second look.
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