linguistic change to its style book. considered the industry standard for journalists. on tuesday the decision was made to banish the use of illegal when writing about, quote, people living in a country illegally. kathleen carol had this to say about the the change. the style book no longer sanctions the term illegal immigrant or the use of illegal to describe a person. instead it tells users that illegal should describe only an action, such as living in or going to a country illegally. i know that sounds like parsing a lot, but truly this move is no small thing, especially when it inspires this. to me it blows me away. that s how you describe somebody who comes here illegally. i don t understand why people are trying to carve up those words? the reason they say don t use