question archive Words are inflected differently when they are in a question
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Words are inflected differently when they are in a question. The final syllable tends to go "up" after a question and "down" after a statement. This happens even more extremely in Spanish, to the point that to read a sentence aloud correctly, you need some advance warning that it will be a sentence. The upside-down question mark is that warning. They do the same thing with .