For the serious grammarians

[drwex]

Those 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:

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)

Comments

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the comma should be there, and a period too. The second comma is debatable, of course, although I've always been a fan of the comma between the second-last and the last items of a list, myself. And it certainly wouldn't hurt comprehension to have the song titles distinguished somehow, yes.