EAS120Y1 Lecture 4: EAS120 Lecture 4
6 Oct 2016
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Commas [(cid:571)] and periods [(cid:572): punctuation helps to identify the segment of the sentence. In japanese, the use of the comma is not as rigid as in english. Mainly used to break up long sentences: there are often no gaps between words in japanese, colons and semicolons are not used in japanese. Periods are circles, not dots like they are in english. There are no question marks in formal written japanese (although they may be used in casual writing. In formal writing, question sentences end with a period: question sentences are identified by the use of -ka at the end. Punctuation is placed on the bottom when writing horizontally, and on the right-side when writing vertically. Quotation marks:(cid:581)(cid:582: very different from english quotation marks. There is no use for the katakana [wo] in writing, since particles are written only in hiragana.
