Despite the best efforts of the APS, I have to assume syntax and style guides will have to just update their rules eventually, rather than everyone else learnin

Despite the best efforts of the APS, I have to assume syntax and style guides will have to just update their rules eventually, rather than everyone else learning to do it their way. Language evolves by knuckleheads making mistakes so often they become standard usage. The realization of that fact offended me, until I realized the snapshot of the language I thought was so precious was also the result of that same process of gradual knuckleheadification. Instead, it just terrifies me now, knowing it's been rule by knuckleheads all the way back into the misty dawn of mankind.