Several people sent me this story about two members of the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) getting arrested for vandalizing a sign at the Grand Canyon. They have been banned from entering any national parks for a year and have to pay a $3000 fine. Yikes! Let this be a lesson to you, dear readers. If you see a punctuation error, take a photo of it for Apostrophe Catastrophes, but don't try to fix it unless it's on a dry-erase board or a cake.
But speaking of errors, doesn't the article's headline, "Men banned from national parks after vandalism," kind of make it sound as if no men are allowed in national parks anymore?
Friday, August 22, 2008
Punctuation Vandalization
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Why not 'Two vandals banned from national parks' or similar - it's shorter, and doesn't imply that all men are banned...
Jst curious, but does anyone know what the sign said?
I saw an image of it on one of the news stories, but it was too hard to read. I think they fixed a misspelling and a couple of punctuation errors.
Quit paying attention to "the syntax of things", and go live life.
Punctuation is not real life.
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