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> Nothing official, but the Chicago Manual of Style is almost so. > > > >In Australia we have a national publication called the Style Manual which > >gives us the latest official decrees on such matters. Do other countries > >have such a thing? I was thinking about style manuals. I generally rely on The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide. Is this the official one or is that still the Govt printers style manual? The recent educational direction in the teaching of English here relies heavily, if not, is totally dependent on a democratic poetics which is supposed to allow all an access to writing. Yet it appears that writing has now passed onto the specialist and experts, such as myself. Up to say 10 or 12 years ago my democratic poetics served me well and it may be suggested democratic poetics played a part in saving thousands of people from serious ill health and cruel deaths. Even with failure the poetics worked and perhaps failure was needed to make it work at all. (Machines don't work unless they break down.) However over the past dozen years I have come to realise this is inadequate and as a result have not published anything major during this time. I however have not joined Badiou in saying democracy is the enemy. While Badiou's claim that mathematics is ontology is indeed innovative it seems to me this is still inadequate to be Spinozan. It appears I may have to cross the border from a poetics that is not philosophy to philosophy since it has come to my attention that the limit function which is claimed to resolve the problem of dx is discontinuous and as such aligns easily with a democratic poetics against the poetics of continuity, which is absolute deviation poetics, which cannot admit of a limit function. This perhaps entails saying that dx is between zero and non-zero real number without being intermediate. Well... I was trained in philosophy so I suppose it had to happen some time???????