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¿¿Que?? (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] margaritox 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

English can do that too, but it’s not really a “proper” way of doing it. The proper way would be to say “is that food?”

There are languages where the only way to pose a question is to change the intonation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But doesn't the intonation simply go up in the end? So it's good enough to stumble over the ? in the end.

[–] margaritox 1 points 10 months ago

I honestly haven’t paid attention where it starts going up. But I always thought that doing the two “?”s in Spanish was pretty clever for that reason.