The Great Typo Hunt

The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.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 its 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 courtwith 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 literacyand the importance of always taking a second look.