Re: proper grammar

Lars Eighner filted:

In our last episode,
<LccFf.262500$D47.82336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
the lovely and talented Adrian Bailey
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

If you go to review an album at rateyourmusic.com one of the instructions
is:

"Put [i] before album names and place [/i] after. Example: [i]About a Boy
[OST][/i]. This will convert the album name to italics, which is proper
grammar."

I find this awkward, but not shocking. Is there a question
somewhere? What to do with an album title is more an issue of
style than of grammar, and the prefered html tag is <cite>.

If one accepts the L in "HTML", it must needs have a grammar...said grammar
includes, inter alia, proper formation of tags, proper pairing of opening and
closing tags, and probably something about when a particular style tag is
appropriate....r

.

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