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How much do you want to fix people's grammar?

CeeBee
1647 posts
Apr 06, 2008
1:49 PM
In The Week, April 11, 2008 --

"Buddies Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson decided to drive across country together and soon ended up on an unusual crusade: correcting the bad spelling and grammar they kept encountering on signs along the way. Among other editing triumphs, they have persuaded a miniature-golf-course owner in Galveston, Texas, to change the lettering on a stucture from 'Davy Jones Locker' to 'Davy Jones's Locker.' A posting in Albuquerque that once read 'No Smoking Are Dogs Allowed' now has an 'Or' where the 'Are' was. For the most part, Deck said, people have been receptive. 'There's been no manhandling or fisticuffs,' Deck said, 'at least not yet.'"

TheMudge
The Real Mudge
2637 posts
Apr 06, 2008
10:14 PM
I also saw this item today, and I chuckled to myself. Applause to Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson! I thought that, when I retired, I might drive cross-country with buckets of paint and white-out and correct road signs, etc. Though I'm retired now, I decided against it. Just adding missing apostrophes and removing incorrect ones could take more years than I have left – and I wouldn't make a dent. I wonder whether Deck and Herson are tackling all those "Mens" room signs.
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Rich Turner (The Curmudgeon Himself)
Pogo
294 posts
Apr 07, 2008
8:14 AM
It made ABC News, too: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4593597&page=1