“Doctors, lawyers, and accountants live like kings (and queens) while copy editors are left to cross their t’s.
The problem is clarity: Copy editors are, by virtue of their trade, too well understood.
THIS IS THE MANUAL THAT WILL CHANGE
ALL OF THAT!”
[Thanks Joy]
Ralph’s Manual of Style has changed my life. Since changing from AP style, which the newspaper where I worked was using, to Ralph’s style, I have been laid off and have successfully sued my employer for discrimination on the basis on punctual preference, and I am now retired at age 35 and living on a beach near Malibu. Go Ralph’s!