I know many, if not all seven, of our readers may already be aware of the cross-country journey to document and correct typos and grammar mistakes that a couple of fellow Dartmouth '02s are currently taking, but thought it would make a good post anyways. Equally adept at roaming both the real and cyber-worlds, our anonymous poster friend originally pointed out the NPR story on these guys and their unique quest. I think there maybe a few other readers here, perhaps some with whom I share a fair amount of genetic material and who are currently roaming the country themselves, that might get a kick out of reading about all the typos these guys find (and correct!). They are currently in my home state of NC (go Heels!) and just found some hundred-year-old typos made by the Wright brothers themselves (maybe we should give them back to Ohio). Anyways, go over to the TEAL Blog and take a look, and good luck the rest of the way, Jeff and Ben!
3.11.2008
Exploits of the "Typo Eradication Advancement League"
I know many, if not all seven, of our readers may already be aware of the cross-country journey to document and correct typos and grammar mistakes that a couple of fellow Dartmouth '02s are currently taking, but thought it would make a good post anyways. Equally adept at roaming both the real and cyber-worlds, our anonymous poster friend originally pointed out the NPR story on these guys and their unique quest. I think there maybe a few other readers here, perhaps some with whom I share a fair amount of genetic material and who are currently roaming the country themselves, that might get a kick out of reading about all the typos these guys find (and correct!). They are currently in my home state of NC (go Heels!) and just found some hundred-year-old typos made by the Wright brothers themselves (maybe we should give them back to Ohio). Anyways, go over to the TEAL Blog and take a look, and good luck the rest of the way, Jeff and Ben!
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He's also rather adept at taking all your money at the poker table, it seems.
Yipes! I've got to meet these guys. In fact, I WAS these guys 39 summers ago when I drove across the US with a friend after graduating from Dart Col.
The best of the best (and I still have the photo) was a huge billboard we saw in Arizona advertising airplane tours:
DECEND INTO THE GRAND CANYON
-DN '69
You're my kind of folks. I'm the retired English teacher who has the Sharpie pen at the ready! I have a signed copy of Brent Davis' "The Spelling Bee," and I participate fully in stamping out ignorance! I am SO there!
The most recent flurry of activity began with my friend's frustration with 'congradulations'. Understandable! I went to a constant source of amusement--the local high school community access TV station. A quick pass through the screens produced these gems:
limited 'enrolment'
'entergetic'
'Shilling' (Schilling is correct)
each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 'evenings'
'occured'
'immeadiate'
Briarcrest's Christian High School's Track (abundance of apostrophes)
'Collinon' (Collinson is correct)
Information for the station is submitted to a teacher at the school, who apparently does NOT correct anything. I have been known to point out such errors as these, but the teacher soon began ignoring my suggestions. I gave up--now I send them to folks like you!
Stay with it! I have! Once I saw 'Charleston Heston' on a movie marquee many years ago, I knew my role in this life! Find 'em and correct 'em!
Bluegrasshack
Media Center on my computer displayed a couple of nuggets concerning my new Ricky Skaggs CD, "Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 & 1947". The words are, thankfully, spelled correctly on the CD insert. Media Center could use TEAL!
"When You're LONLEY"
"Why Did You WONDER" (should be WANDER)
Bluegrasshack
TEAL T-shirt arrived today. I'm off to eradicate where necessary...and goodness knows, it's necessary!
Great chance to wear my TEAL shirt--which is brown--for the first time as I sally forth to stamp out ignorance!
Teacher at school where I once taught before I retired passed along this jewel which was on signs in the school hallways:
Tryouts this week for the POM-POM CORPSE!
Bluegrasshack 3/31/08
My TEAL quest continues: Just this week I e-mailed All Star Mobility about a couple of glaring errors in their TV ad: 'Mobillity' and 'accomodate'. I never heard from them, which led me to conclude that a) they're not swift enough to catch the corrections, or b) they just don't care! My money is on choice 'b'.
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