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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
According to Fundéu BBVA, the Urgent Spanish Foundation, [38] and the director of the Chilean Academy of the Spanish language, [39] the phrase uttered by the King, given the situation under which it was said, should be written with exclamation marks instead of question marks: ¡Por qué no te callas!
This is quite common in Spanish, where the use of bracketing question marks explicitly indicates the scope of interrogation. En el caso de que no puedas ir con ellos, ¿quieres ir con nosotros? ('In case you cannot go with them, would you like to go with us?') A question mark may also appear immediately after questionable data, such as dates:
English or Spanish is an Internet prank challenge that was popularized in 2024. The challenge involves asking the question "English or Spanish?" to an unsuspecting person or group—mainly men or boys—and then declaring "Whoever moves first is gay" in the chosen language. The participants, including the speaker, would often remain still in ...
In Spanish, the words sí 'yes' and no 'no' are unambiguously classified as adverbs: serving as answers to questions and also modifying verbs. The affirmative sí can replace the verb after a negation ( Yo no tengo coche, pero él sí = I don't own a car, but he does ) or intensify it ( I don't believe he owns a car.
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A question mark made of smaller question marks. A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information.Questions are sometimes distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them.