Why not periods? Why doesn’t every sentence in Spanish that isn’t a question or exclamation start with a period floating in the sky?

  • teft@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    English changes the order of the words of the sentence. Spanish uses punctuation marks. It’s just differences in languages. Personally I appreciate them since it helps me read Spanish quicker with fewer parsing errors.

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      8 months ago

      “How would I find out?”

      I can tell you.

      I can tell you?

      Yes, English uses word order to define grammar in many more sentences than Spanish, but not exclusively.