Punctuation~
I'm kind of curious about punctuation in different languages. In Russian it is very important, and there are lots of rules on where and in what occasion you should put comma or colon or something else. Sure, every language has its own special punctuation features, but I'm slightly confused about it.
We have studied punctuation in Russian language for 11 years at school. It was always a significant part of the lesson. However, for the years I've been studying English, both at school and on additional courses, no one really told me anything about the rules of punctuation. Same with Japanese language. So I assumed they're not that important.
Am I wrong? What role does punctuation play in different languages? If you have any interesting information or opinion to share, I will be very thankfull. And feel free to correct my mistakes!
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Punctuation~
I'm kind of curious about punctuation in different languages. In Russian it is very important, and there are lots of rules on where and in what occasion you should put comma or colon or something else. Sure, every language has its own special punctuation features, but I'm slightly confused about it.
(what does 'it' refer to? every language, special features, or the whole subject?)
We have studied punctuation in Russian language for 11 years at school. It was always a significant part of the lesson. However, for the years during the whole time I've been studying English, both at school and in additional courses, no one really told me anything about the rules of punctuation. Same with Japanese language. So I assumed they're not that important. (Wrong! maybe they just judged them too fussy to teach them! :D )
Am I wrong? What role does punctuation play in different languages? (I think I won't be wrong if I say punctuation is intended to show natural pauses or even rhythms, and sometimes to remove ambiguity; full-stop, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash and parentheses all have strong rules, with exceptions as always of course - note that I have used comma, semi-colon, dash (but until now no parenthesis) and even ellipsis to end...) If you have any interesting information or opinion to share, I will be very thankful. And feel free to correct my mistakes!
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/punctuation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
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Wow, that is very interesting! I've learnt a lot from your comment. Thank you^^
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Hm... English too is pretty strict with punctuation marks - I realized that when I applied for our school paper way back in high school. Japanese uses the regular (English) punctuations together with their own special set of punctuation marks. They use kuten ( 。) which acts like a period. I think it's also essential for them, since they got rules on how to position it in case they'd write in vertical or horizontal manner.
Filipinos generally write in Latin script where regular punctuations play important roles too. However, the use of diacritic marks is only optional. Filipino writing is very phonetic, and hyphens are a must to separate English loanwords from our affixes, perhaps to indicate different approach in pronunciation.
While in Baybayin (an ancient pre-Hispanic Filipino script), that is seldom used in the country, only has 2 vertical lines (||) to indicate full stop as punctuation.
Well in Irish, um... I don't know, I'm still in the process of learning how their punctuations work especially the Tironian. Interesting. ^_^
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