Typo Hunt

1. erik
   May 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am

   Sounds like a bunch of grammar nazis!

2. annemarie
   May 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am

   I’m guessing the people that are a part of TEAL are white just because of this website:
   http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/

   they must crap their pants when they get a txt message!

3. drunkenass
   May 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am

   $6.99 for a watermelon? I hope that is part of the typo . . .

4. Me
   May 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am

   Haha, I hesitate to mention this, because it would cause a lot of aggravation for the crew members if people started bugging them to fix everything, but at Trader Joe’s all the signs are handmade by an art team. EVERY SIGN for every product, so there are bound to be mistakes. Most common, I’ve found, is a Q instead of a G, Quacamole, Baquettes. I don’t fix them, though, I think it’s pretty cute.

5. Miss Cellania
   May 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am

   Art team? At most grocery stores, every sign for every item is made by the workers on the floor. If a grocery store has an “art team”, they should be held to a higher standard.

6. caitlin13
   May 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am

   Ahahaha trying to catch their typos is exactly what I’d do. I like what they’re doing. Typos always annoy me. In fact.. Hey I might have one!

7. Ron Moses
   May 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am

   I managed to convince my local supermarket to change all their “10 items or less” signs to read “10 items or fewer”. Unfortunately they did it with masking tape and a Sharpie. But hey, it’s something.

8. CheeseDuck
   May 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm

   Taht r teh awsumenzz.

9. Alex
   May 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   We need a tpyo hunt on Neatorama

10. Alex
    May 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    D’oh!

11. ted
    May 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Geez, if you read their stuff, they actually go around with business cards and ask people to correct their typos - sounds about as pleasant as being visited by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

    I believe that’s how the Knights Templar got started.

12. Shelby
    May 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    thanks TEAL for reminding people to respect the English language (sorry my comma key isn’t working; I know there should be some in this post)

    anyone who thinks they’re going overboard needs to read a book now and then

13. Barbwire
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    It’s kind to call many of these errors typos, when they are simply presenting the stupidity of the writer. I cringe reading the comments of many blogs. Why can’t people learn to write decent English? What is so terribly difficult about the difference between the verbs “to lie” and “to lay”? Oh, well. These errors are getting so common, clearly more and more people don’t even see the mistake.

14. Thomas
    May 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 am

    The one that gets me is public restrooms marked, “Mens.”

15. Bart
    May 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 am

    In that entry for the “Graphite Sculpture”, they fixed a typo, but left in “San Francicso”.

16. GREG WOOD
    August 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am

    I am reasonably certain that the word “typo” connotes
    an accidental strike of the key, not an intentional
    decision to spell a word incorrectly.

    What these guys are talking about are not “typos”,
    they are grammatical and/or spelling mistakes.

    I personally find the misuse of apostrophes to be more
    bothersome and offensive than spelling errors, which can happen to anyone(except, of course, to me…).

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