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

  English changes the syntax 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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  • Nougat@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can tell you?

      Dunno for others but for me this question sounds rhetorical, due to the lack of inversion. By default you expect questions in English to start with a [typically auxiliary] verb - “can I tell you?”, “do you know him?”, et cetera.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not a direct comparison.

      You can tell me

      vs

      Can you tell me?

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