Grammar freak banned from national parks August 26, 2008

Yeah. This could be me some day.

I’ve been a big fan of Jeff Deck after seeing a report about him on ABC News. TEAL, or the Typo Eradication Advancement League, has been under controversy lately. As you might infer, that link isn’t what the Web site looks like normally.

Deck and his team literally go around America to copy edit everything — menus, business signs, highway signs — everything. So then they touched the pictured sign — a hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park.

The National Park Service didn’t like this, so they fined TEAL $3,035 to repair the sign. They’re also banned from all national parks for one year (pity, I know).

This just proves — grammar is more than words. It’s a crime.