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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: “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.
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