Comment on Why is only the ? and ! put at the front and upside down of a sentence in Spanish?

teft@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s because Spanish sentence structure is different from English. In Spanish the sentences “Can I tell you? (¿Te lo puedo decir?) and “I can tell you.” (Te lo puedo decir.) are formed the same way. The initial punctuation lets the reader know that the sentence is a question or exclamation or not so they can parse the sentence properly from the start.

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