For the serious grammarians
Sep. 5th, 2006 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexThose of you who think creative spelling is amusing and refer to the punctuation-aware with pejorative terms can just skip right along.
Now, for the rest of us, I quote a sentence from a recent BBC New story:
I find the use of question mark-comma particularly odd. If that's appropriate, why not end the sentence with a period? Why not put the song titles in quotes, or at least italics? Discuss!
(original here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm, link courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Now, for the rest of us, I quote a sentence from a recent BBC New story:
Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?
I find the use of question mark-comma particularly odd. If that's appropriate, why not end the sentence with a period? Why not put the song titles in quotes, or at least italics? Discuss!
(original here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm, link courtesy of
coslinks)
