Thought: Don’t sentences that are questions have a syntactical signature that is machine recognizable? If yes, couldn’t the iPhone be made to know when to insert a period when you hit double spacebar and when to switch to a question mark?
Most of the time when I text someone, I’m asking them a question, so I’d rather the double spacebar tap be a question mark personally.
I like this thought. That’d be really convenient, though I’m so used to typing on my phone that its quicker for me to hit the period or question mark than it is for me to remember to double tap after a sentence. I’m still getting used to that.
no. Subject-verb inversion in English doesn’t always indicate an interrogative. And text-based questions are often just...
I like this thought. That’d...really convenient, though I’m so used
I’m iPhoneless....statement-vs.-question stuff. And if iPhone is set up that way, who...
Well, to address #2 first, I was talking about...the iPhone where, instead of going
1. In many Latin languages, and often even in English, it’s the tone of our voices