On 2002.09.07, 04:27, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here're the basic punctuation rules for Spanish, from the US-GPO's
> Style Manual (March 1984 edition, page 445):
<...>
> �QUESTION (�  ?) and EXCLAMATION (�  !) MARKS:  Demarcate questions
> and exclamations as in English�the difference here (in Spanish) is
> that the inverted forms (�  �) begin such sentences, while the regular
> forms (?  !) are found at the end of them.

Demarcated questions and exclamations may not coincide wholly with a
sentence, but rather with it's ending period or word, f.i.:

Roberto es cachondo, �verdad?
Me han propuso este, �qu� hortera!

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