Awkward: Typo-fixers Arraigned
Posted By Peter On August 22, 2008 @ 3:29 pm In signs | Comments Disabled
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When it comes to a battle between historic sign craftsmanship and Grammar Nazi tendencies, do we all lose [2]? That’s the apparent lesson from a pair of twenty-something hipsters [3] who set out on a course to fix America’s typo-addled signs, only to end up with a year’s probation for defacing (defixing?) a historic 1930s placard in Arizona. Unfortunately the Parks Service valued historical authenticity higher than the eradication of Grocer’s Apostrophes [4], saddling Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson with a one-year bannination from the National Park System. Wonder if Seattle’s historic hand-painted signs [5] can rest easy now?
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[1] Image: http://flickr.com/photos/http2007/2407453809/
[2] do we all lose: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_sign_vandals.html
[3] twenty-something hipsters: http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:IC2NjvzyE1AJ:www.jeffdeck.com/teal/+http://www.jeffdeck.com/teal/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
[4] Grocer’s Apostrophes: http://www.flickr.com/groups/77173807@N00/
[5] Seattle’s historic hand-painted signs: http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/09/25/hand-painted-street-signs/
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