Comment on Why is only the ? and ! put at the front and upside down of a sentence in Spanish?
teft@lemmy.world 8 months agoEnglish 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.
Nougat@fedia.io 8 months ago
"How would I find out?"
Yes, English uses word order to define grammar in many more sentences than Spanish, but not exclusively.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 months ago
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.
glimse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s not a direct comparison.
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