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I like the prefix marks. I wish we used them for all of our punctuation. They improve readability. Imagine if we removed the leading double-quote on our quoted lines.
As a latin American myself, I never considered that. As a programmer, I completely back that up.
.I feel like this analogy doesn't entirely work because you always know where the question starts, as that's where the sentence startS. ,And a sentence always starts where the one before ends, ¿righT? .However I still see why you say it improves readabilitY. ¡I'm sure my comment is very readable right noW!
I don't mind the prefixed punctuation at all and don't think it hurts readability in the slightest.
Your inexplicable decision to capitalize the final letters is awful though, and definitely makes it less readable.
lol noted, I was just goofing around
lol yeah I guess it depends on the length of the sentence and the context. Context is usually pretty clear for questions, and maybe exclamations are typically short enough that the '!' is already visible anyways. Definitely wasn't considering periods and commas in that list.
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's comment. Also I feel the need to admit that I first read ¿)Nathan's(? username as "Pool-over" as in "pull over"...
Ngl in my head I read this as "I. . . feel like"
Statement: Perhaps HK-47's programmers had the right idea.
Thoughtful: The Elcor's manner of speech from Mass Effect would be particularly useful when communicating through text as well.
Approving: Indeed
Sarcastic: Indeed.
Wow. So that's how you can actually do sarcasm on the interwebs!
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