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[-] ActionHank@sopuli.xyz 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] victron@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago

As a latin American myself, I never considered that. As a programmer, I completely back that up.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

.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!

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

lol noted, I was just goofing around

[-] ActionHank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

.I feel like this analogy doesn’t entirely work because you always know where the question starts, as that’s where the sentence startS.

Not always. For example (translated):

And you, ¿how are you?

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

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?"

[-] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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"...