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Typo Eradication League Brought to Justice, But Lives to See Another Day

Posted by Teddy Bear Mafia 08/22/2008 11:55 AM

Tags: Typo Eradication Advancement League, virginia men banned from park, typos, typo, benjamin douglas herson, jeff michael deck

Typo Eradication League Brought to Justice, But Lives to See Another Day

Typos – the bane of every blogger, student and editor’s existence.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than having a professor or overly critical reader call you out on a misplaced comma, misspelled word or misused diction. No one

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Rutgers - New BrunswickFunny

English Department Fails

Posted by Valencia Chang 02/25/2008 10:59 PM

Tags: english department, spelling, typo

Outside the Multipurpose Room at the College Ave Student Center, a sign erected by the English Department for an evening event displays poor command of English language. And what a embarrassing, glaring error it was too, as if it was made by a negligent teenager during an AIM conversation.

It might have been forgivable if it was a mistake made by any department other than English.

Shame.

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Typo on Brown Website

Posted by arcticswimmingpools 09/04/2007 11:43 PM

Tags: Daily Jolt, Brown website, typo, Browns pristine image

Reports from the Daily Jolt confirm it: there was a temporary typo on the Academic Life page. The typo persisted up to 17 hours past the first note of in on the DJ. Luckily, it was recently confirmed that the typo was gone; Brown's pristine image safe again. One anonymous student attributed the correction to, "Jolt Gods. Only reasonable explanation."

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