Quito, Ecuador has a group of anonymous grammar watchmen called Acción Ortográfica Quito who correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors in graffiti around the city. The trio, known as Punto Final, post their work online and aim to entertain the city.
Graffiti is a common sight in most cities around the world and Quito, Ecuador is no different. But there is something unique about the graffiti of this South American capital. Quito is home to a small group of grammar watchmen, known as the Acción Ortográfica Quito (Quito Spelling Action). The three men in the group, who have chosen to remain anonymous, have taken it upon themselves to correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammatical errors in graffiti around the city. Celebrated on social media, stealth editing work, according to one of the grammar guerrillas, is “something to entertain the city, to make it less serious”.
Power to the people who edit:
Calling themselves Punto Final, Agent X and Agent Diéresis, the anonymous trio, clad in hoodies and balaclavas, gleefully snap photos of flawed graffiti diatribes, spray-painted edits, and then post their work online.
The group’s name was chosen to mock Acción Poética, a guerrilla poetic movement in Latin America that began 20 years ago in Monterrey, Mexico.
In an interview, Punto Final underlines the irony: “If someone started to correct vandalism through vandalism… you would put some sort of order into something that has no rules”.
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