• margaritox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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.