Anyway, the hot line is a service we provide to the community whereby people call in with grammar questions and we provide them with answers. Inevitably, though, the people calling are at work, composing something for their bosses or arguing with their coworkers over the placement of a comma. Obviously, when spoken, the inflection of the speaker's voice, the context of the situation and even facial expression help determine the meaning of a statement. However, we live in an epoch of rampant anarchy, when rules regarding conduct, hygiene and social behavior are trampled at every turn. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know.
Nobody cares anyway.
It is a good time to be rewriting rules. Let's face it, English grammar rules are suspect anyway, most of them having been invented by 19th-century British mathematicians, which is why, in many other languages, double negatives are used to emphasize the negative, while in English they supposedly equal a positive, just as in math. I ask only that you sign me up as your first loyal follower. Here's some of the good stuff that's come in recently.