Hey, I’m not totally unsympathetic. I’m an editor by trade, so sometimes I feel compelled to call people on grammatical technicalities that 90% of the population wouldn’t care about. (Er... I mean “about which 90% of the population wouldn’t care.”) But I also know there are times when strict adherence to the rules is clumsy, stilted, and generally more trouble than it’s worth. Sometimes an intelligent decision to break the rules is in order. (And who gets to make these damn rules anyway?) I think that’s the general concept here.
I fought the term ‘normalcy’ for a very long time, and now I don’t care. There is an example for you. I guess there is a rule somewhere that rules get broken all the time, eh?