As a Spaniard: yes.
Comment on Why is only the ? and ! put at the front and upside down of a sentence in Spanish?
all-knight-party@kbin.run 6 months ago
I would assume it's because it leads the reader to what tone to use in a given sentence. The question mark or exclamation point would be useful in tone throughout the whole sentence, but if neither is present in front of the sentence a regular reading tone could be assumed.
so why add a floating period when nothing being there allows for the same assumption and is much, much simpler and easier?
XEAL@lemm.ee 6 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
*si
frickineh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
*sí
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
*c
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lo estoy intentando, pero sigo ciego.
WellroundedKi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
- Sí.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Still learning Spanish but I believe this is correct, because you can insert a question mark into the middle of a sentence as well if the entire sentence isn’t a question.
Ex:
I have fish, do you want to cook it?
Tengo pescado, ¿quieres cocinarlo?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
You can do that and it’s grammatically correct? :O
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 6 months ago
Language is more than just written script and spoken words - grammar is very language specific too. In Spanish, the example above is indeed grammatically correct.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Yup! I really like it a lot more than how we do it in English honestly, it’s like quotation marks for a question. It’s very pleasing to me to have something in the sentence clearly highlighting what the question is. If it has any annoyances or drawbacks I’m not at a comprehension level where I’ve run into them.
abcde_fz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Quotation marks for a question is a beautiful way to say that!