Apostrophe Man would be delighted with the efforts of Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson who are men on a mission, a mission to correct poor grammar, wherever they find it.
Picture a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation – holding back a flood of mixed metaphors and spelling mistakes and extraneous punctuation so commonplace we rarely notice it anymore. But they are 28 and idealistic. Graduates of Dartmouth College, they are old friends with a schoolmarm’s irritation at conspicuous errors, and despite their mild and somewhat nerdy exteriors, they have serious nerve. Deck lives outside Boston; Herson lives outside Washington. And together, they are TEAL – the Typo Eradication Advancement League – and they are between jobs.
I dare say they’d also have a field day with my split definitives, but that’s another story.
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