Forum: Linguistics
Topic: Spanish punctuation - inversion of '?' and '!'
Poster: Andy Watkinson
Post title: Spanish - Double
"What I would like to know now, what other languages can express the same English question of 7 words in two words?
Huge word-count difference in source and target!
Judith"
"They used to be in the habit of taking off their shoes and socks" (14 words)
"Descalzábanse" (1 word)
Andy
[Edited at 2006-08-08 18:07]
[Edited at 2006-08-08 18:08]
Topic: Spanish punctuation - inversion of '?' and '!'
Poster: Andy Watkinson
Post title: Spanish - Double
"What I would like to know now, what other languages can express the same English question of 7 words in two words?
Huge word-count difference in source and target!
Judith"
"They used to be in the habit of taking off their shoes and socks" (14 words)
"Descalzábanse" (1 word)
Andy
[Edited at 2006-08-08 18:07]
[Edited at 2006-08-08 18:08]
