Audio By Carbonatix
Jeff Deck wanted to change the world. “I thought, ‘What am I good at?’” he says. “And I’m good at editing — I can spot a typo at 100 yards — so I decided to make a national campaign out of it.”
With his partner, Benjamin Herson, in tow, Deck saved up some money and set out across the country with a “typo correction kit” in search of text errors wherever they might appear, correcting them — and blogging about it — as they went along. Unlike many grammar guerrillas, however, Deck didn’t just want to get things corrected; he wanted to raise awareness. “We’re trying to spread the gospel of how important it is to just take a second look at your text before you send it out into the world,” he says. In that spirit, Deck and Herson made it their mission to make those responsible for the typos aware of their mistakes and requested permission to correct it — with compassion: “We wanted to be the kinder, gentler alternative to what’s become the stereotype of the angry grammarian.”
The mission turned into a book, The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time, and now those two friends are back on the road on a promotional tour that brings them to the Highlands Ranch Tattered Cover, 9315 Dorchester Street, tonight at 7:30 p.m.
The event is free, but signed copies of the book ($23.99) are not. For more information, go to www.tatteredcover.com or call 303-470-7050.
Fri., Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m., 2010
