I wish we had it in English! The number of times I had to read aloud with no idea that I was reading a question until the end of the sentence and had to settle for an awkward upward inflection?
I'm sorry to say that I think it's on its way out. People use ¿ less and less. You can dictate other punctuation marks to your iPhone, but I always have to type ¿ and ¡ because I have yet to figure out a way to get the gizmo to recognize them in speech. Did the chowderheads who designed Apple's speech recognition even bother?
I love that upside down question mark! I hope it doesn't go out of style.
ReplyDeleteYou and me both. I wish they had it in Italian.
DeleteI wish we had it in English! The number of times I had to read aloud with no idea that I was reading a question until the end of the sentence and had to settle for an awkward upward inflection?
DeleteI wish native Spanish speakers appreciated and used them more!
DeleteI'm sorry to say that I think it's on its way out. People use ¿ less and less. You can dictate other punctuation marks to your iPhone, but I always have to type ¿ and ¡ because I have yet to figure out a way to get the gizmo to recognize them in speech. Did the chowderheads who designed Apple's speech recognition even bother?
ReplyDelete¡That's too bad!
DeleteI live in Britain and once wrote by mistake a question with initial question mark, people in the office thought I had a stroke or something
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