Apostrophe - apostrophe

Japanese: アポストロフィ - あぽすとろふぃ
Apostrophe - apostrophe

...The marks used to indicate the break between parts of a sentence are comma (、), semicolon (;), and colon (:), in that order of length (the corresponding break in breath is longer in time). Other marks used when the nature of the line of speech changes include quotation marks (such as “ ”), parentheses (( )), brackets ([ ]), dashes (―), hyphens (‐), and apostrophes ('), which are also beginning to be used in Japanese when writing horizontally. In addition, if we include italics, which are used to emphasize a part of a sentence, and capitalization, which are used to modify the appearance of the text rather than adding something, there are four types. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "apostrophe" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…文のなかの部分と部分との切れめを示す符号として,コンマcomma(,),セミコロンsemicolon(;),コロンcolon(:)があり,この順序に切れめが長くなる(該当する息の切れめが時間的に長くなる)。このほか,話線の性質が変わるときに用いる符号として,引用符quotation marks(“ ”など),かっこparentheses(( )),角かっこbrackets([ ]),ダッシュdash(―),ハイフンhyphen(‐),アポストロフィapostrophe(’)などがあり,これらは日本語でも横書きのときに用いられるようになりつつある。なお,文のなかのある部分を強調するために用いるイタリックitalics,頭(かしら)文字法capitalizationなど,なにかつけ加えるのではなく,字面に手を加える場合もいれれば4種類になる。…

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