You know how the Incredible Hulk gets all green and destructive when someone pushes his buttons? I get the same way when a writer uses inconsistent grammar. In fact, I once called out a college professor for alternating bullet points with numbered lists on the class syllabus. True story… the other students then circled the desks while Professor Pain and the Mean Machine Jamison Cush fought to the death. I obviously emerged victorious, given that I am writing this and Professor Pain is now just a dedication in the Emerson College Class of ’02 yearbook. But man, that was one rough pottery course.

My general point here is that consistency is key. There is no edit more glaring than the aforementioned bulleted/numbered list alternation, or the double-space/single-space-after-a-period switcheroo. In addition, some writers capitalize “Web” and “Internet,” while some do not. There is debate as to the proper format. However, those that write it both ways in the same article only ensure they are wrong at least once.

My writer friends, the time has come for us to get off the fence and commit to a singular format and style for each article. If we are technically wrong in format, then so be it. At least we committed and were not a bunch of syrup-loving wafflers.

Or as the Incredible Hulk would say, “LEGGO MY EGGO AND DON’T ALTERTNATE BULLETED LISTS WITH NUMBERED LISTS, GRRRRRRRRRRR!”