Copy Editors Killed in Chicago Manual-AP Violence

On By Chas S. Clifton

“At this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English,” said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein, showing reporters graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read “antisocial.”

Chicago rulez. We got two documentation styles, an’ we know de difference tween a hyphen and an en-dash. Dey ain’t got shit.

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