Raymott
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" ... none of her native English teachers" maybe. But we recently had an Arabic-speaking English teacher here who did the same thing, but declined to answer my question - hence this thread.I can tell you for sure that none of her English teachers would ever have taught such punctuation to her.
I've thought of another possible reason. Arabic is written from the right to left, so the end of a word is on the left. Maybe Arabic uses punctuation as we do, but they count "a word, a mark, a space, a word" from the right?
.So ,this would be normal
.lamron be dluow siht ,oS
(Sorry, I'm running out of ideas.)
But I do agree that native speakers of other languages that do not use European-style punctuation, such as Chinese, are over-represented among punctuation misusers. Perhaps if no one wants to fess up here, I'll start a Chinese speaker thread.
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