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The Great Typo Hunt

jamie writes "Incensed by a 'no tresspassing' sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical wrongs. He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they erased errant quotation marks, rectified misspellings and cut unnecessary possessive apostrophes. The Great Typo Hunt is the story of their crusade." We have already covered the duo's fight with The National Park Service.

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  1. i don't understand the point by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    as long as the meaning is communicated, who cares?

    nitpicking about arcane redundant rules of the english language is bizarre to me

    my theory is that for grammar nazis, there is some sort of mental condition where a sort of extreme cognitive dissonance results when they see a grammar violation, and they simply can't function unless it is corrected

    it's really weird to me, it's some sort of brittleness of mind,a handicap

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  2. Whadda Dipshit.. by Paracelcus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yoo'd make sumbody a reel good secratary!

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