Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson are now on a road trip around the country to stamp out as many typos as they can find, in public signage and other venues where innocent eyes may be befouled by vile stains on the delicate fabric of our language. Deck left Somerville last March 5 and picked up Herson in Maryland, a few stops down the road. Since hitting the highway, they’ve put many hundreds of miles on the Sentra getting to such places as Hoboken, N.J.; Lansdowne, Pa.; Silver Spring, Md.; Virginia Beach, Va.; Morehead City, N.C.; Charleston, S.C.; Atlanta; Mobile, Ala.; New Orleans; Galveston, Texas; Albuquerque; and Flagstaff, Ariz.
They’ve chronicled hundreds of typos and also corrected many of them because, as the project manifesto states, “only through working together with vigilance and a love of correctness can we achieve the beauty of a typo-free society.”
The manifesto makes clear, though, that it’s not about making people look stupid or feel bad.
We do not blame, nor chastise, the authors of these typos. It is natural for mistakes to occur; everybody will slip now and again. But slowly the once-unassailable foundations of spelling are crumbling, and the time has come for the crisis to be addressed.
Visit: The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL)
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