What sorts of punctuation do you wish existed, or were in common use in your language?
What sorts of punctuation do you wish existed, or were in common use in your language?
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I would love a combination of "?" and ",". This would allow me to mark a specific part of a sentence as a question.
A sentence which embeds a question is a run-on sentence.
We speak in run-on sentences.
You're a run-on sentence!
As someone with ADHD you have no idea how correct you are.
If I understand @xmunk@sh.itjust.works's comment elsewhere in this thread properly, I think that's what a pause interrogative may be. I also agree with them that it (and the interrogative start) does better fit some ways of speaking.
I've done this before. Example
I was going somewhere yesterday, the bank?, when I saw....
It's also fun to interject bangs into sentences too
I was so convinced that I was going to die!, but I ended up just fine.
Ultimately, I feel that if language is descriptive and not ambiguous it is legitimate English.
Spanish has ¿ and ?, not sure if that's what you mean
Either the whole thing is a question or you need to break it up.
I'm curious if you can convince me otherwise though!
“Maybe we can meetup tomorrow? And I’d love to know what you want to do.”
Can be split up into two sentences but sometimes, when spoken, is said as a continuous sentence.
Yeah, that's either two "sentences" or one statement imo!
The first part doesn't even need to be a question. A suggestion like that would usually be a statement. If there's enough rising intonation that it needs a question mark, there's probably enough of a pause to justify having two sentences.
It's not about making it a question, is about showing doubt.
"Jake should've been there last night (?), but I doesn't have time to check."
Sure there are ways to phrase that differently, but it's the sort of message we can easily communicate with hand gestures and intonation, but fail with written word.
Ah, I see. Like you suggested though, that's definitely not a question (which is what the other comment said)
Absolutely yes. I think it's common (?) practice to use brackets like I just have.