Punctuation

Japanese: punctuation
Punctuation

...Later in 1946 (Showa 21), the Ministry of Education's National Language Research Office published "How to Use Punctuation Marks," but this was presented as one proposal for punctuation marks and was not recognized as orthography. The equivalent of "punctuation marks" or "punctuation" in English, French, German, etc. is punctuation, which is divided into three types. First, there are the marks that indicate the break between sentences: the period (.), the question mark (?), and the exclamation mark (!), which respectively express the meaning of a statement, question, and exclamation (command). ...

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Japanese:

…その後1946年(昭和21)に,文部省国語調査室編集の《くぎり符号の使ひ方》が出たが,これも句読点の一つの案として示されたのであって,正書法として認められたものではないのである。 英語,フランス語,ドイツ語などの〈句読点〉または〈句読法〉にあたるのはパンクチュエーションpunctuationで,3種類に分けられる。まず,文と文との切れめを示す符号として,ピリオドperiod(.),疑問符question mark(?),感嘆符exclamation mark(!)があり,それぞれ叙述・疑問・感嘆(命令)の意味をあらわす。…

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