Question about Spanish punctuation

Question

Aside from the accents, is the placement of commas, semicolons, periods and all that other fun stuff the same?

Answer 1

I found the this article in our reference section to be quite helpful.

Thank you I'm sorry I'm overtired I shouldn't havem missed that - ionisme, Aug 20, 2011

Hey, I've done the same thing numerous times myself! Not to worry, we're kind of friendly around here!! ;-) - territurtle, Aug 20, 2011

Answer 2

I notice that the Spanish use less commas than English and to indicate that someone is speaking they don't use quotation marks. In Spanish they use a long dash ( — ), sometimes known as an em dash (raya in Spanish), to indicate the beginning and end of the quotation or a change in speaker.

Spanish writing does use comillas angulares (« and »), angular quotation marks, to say something like ....I went and got a "Adriea" massage.

Hmm good to know Mariana. - pacofinkler, Aug 20, 2011