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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: ¿Why does the Spanish language incorporate two question marks at the beginning and end of their questions when writing?
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In Spanish, as in English, the whole sentence is transformed by the fact it's a question--the meaning is different, and you use a different tone. (Consider the difference between "It belongs to him." and "It belongs to him?") A question mark at the start of the sentence is an extra clue in Spanish, while in English we're fond of words like "why" to signal the start of a question.

Punctuation, especially standardized punctuation, is relatively new as far as European languages go. Hence why different languages often have different ways of doing it.