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minus-squarePoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago .I feel like this analogy doesn’t entirely work because you always know where the question starts, as that’s where the sentence startS. Not always. For example (translated): And you, ¿how are you?
minus-squarestebo02@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYou could write that as “And you? How are you?” so both parts of that sentence are still a question. However there are other examples where you’re right: “,That’s not going to happen, ¿or is it?”
minus-squareakari@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoI feel like the first example in your comment implies a different intonation than it’s equivalent in PooloverNathan’ comment. Also I feel the need to admit that I first read ¿)Nathan’s(? username as “Pool-over” as in “pull over”…
Not always. For example (translated):
You could write that as “And you? How are you?” so both parts of that sentence are still a question.
However there are other examples where you’re right: “,That’s not going to happen, ¿or is it?”
I feel like the first example in your comment implies a different intonation than it’s equivalent in PooloverNathan’ comment. Also I feel the need to admit that I first read ¿)Nathan’s(? username as “Pool-over” as in “pull over”…