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Grammar police, meet real police
By Ron Newman on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 4:48pm
Somerville resident Jeff Deck must pay $3,035 and stay out of all national parks for a year after using markers and white-out to correct "typos" on a historic sign at the Grand Canyon.
Deck has taken down his Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) website, but here's a Google-cached version of the page where he and his friends brag about doing this. Unfortunately, the photos are no longer online, and none of the news articles I've looked at have shown the actual sign in question.
(hat tip to Kat Powers at the Somerville Journal blog for noticing this story)
Update: Language Log has a photo of the sign.
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Comments
Are these the guys that make
Are these the guys that make arbitrary assumptions about place names being posessives, or was that some other "grammar vandal"?
The journalist's, at the
The journalist's, at the Dorchester Fishwrap, don't bother to mention what grammatical offenses the grammar nazi's corrected, but there are a few examples, in this posting.
The grammar nazi's what?
That should be nazis, not nazi's. The apostrophe indicates possession.
Jeff?
Is that you?
LOL. Great post. They
LOL. Great post.
They should take up a collection... use paypal.
As punishment
I sentence them to being forced to reading only e.e. cummings for the next 2 years:
Starting with "she being Brand..."
she being Brand
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know consequently a
little stiff i was
careful of her and(having
thoroughly oiled the universal
joint tested my gas felt of
her radiator made sure her springs were O.
K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her
up,slipped the
clutch(and then somehow got into reverse she
kicked what
the hell)next
minute i was back in neutral tried and
again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg. ing(my
lev-er Right-
oh and her gears being in
A 1 shape passed
from low through
second-in-to-high like
greasedlightning)just as we turned the corner of Divinity
avenue i touched the accelerator and give
her the juice,good
(it
was the first ride and believe i we was
happy to see how nice she acted right up to
the last minute coming back down by the Public
Gardens i slammed on
the
internalexpanding
&
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brakes Bothatonce and
brought allofher tremB
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to a:dead.
stand-
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Having to read Dr. Seuss
Having to read Dr. Seuss would make for good punishment too.