Today we will

be talking
about:
Punctuation the role it
plays in different
languages

What are the main

punctuation marks?

KUNG FU PUNCTUATION BLACK

BELT
Objectives
-To learn the Kung Fu
moves for nine
punctuation marks.
- To use these moves in a
game of Kung Fu
punctuation.

Full Stop
Throw a short, right-handed punch at the
air in front of you. Make the noise, Ha!

Comma
With your right arm bent so that your
hand is in front of your face, make a short
twisting motion at the wrist to signify the
comma shape. Make the noise, Shi!

Semi-Colon
Do the full-stop punch, then the
comma shape directly underneath
it. Make the noises, Ha! Shi!

Colon
Follow the full-stop punch immediately
with one directly beneath it. Make the
noises, Ha! Ha!

Question Mark
Separate the curly bit into three cutting
movements with the hand: one horizontal left to
right, one curved around, and one vertical
coming from the bottom of the curved one. Then
at the bottom of the shape you have just drawn
in the air, bung in a full-stop punch. Make the
noises, Shi! Shi! Shi! Ha!

Exclamation Mark
A long vertical slash, from top to
bottom, followed by a full stop.
Make the noises, Shiiiiii! Ha!

Speech Marks
Stand on one leg, extend your arms
diagonally to the skies and wiggle your index
and middle fingers in an approximation of
speech marks. Make the noise, Haeeeee!

Apostrophe
With your right arm fully extended to the air,
wiggle your index finger. Make the noise,
Blubalubaluba! (This is the best I can do to
approximate the sound you can make with
your tongue when you flap it up and down
against the inside of your lips.)

Ellipsis

Three punches along a horizontal

line. Make the noises, Ha! Ha! Ha!

Brackets

Using your left hand first, draw a curved

convex line in the air; use your right hand
to do the opposite motion for the closing
bracket. Make the noises, Shi! Shi!

Other European languages use much the

same punctuation as English. The similarity
is so strong that the few variations may
confuse a native English reader.
Quotation marks are particularly variable
across European languages. For example, in
French and Russian, quotes would appear as:
Je suis fatigu. (in French, each "double
punctuation", as the guillemet, requires a
non-breaking space; in Russian it does not).

 In

Greek, the question mark is written as

the English semicolon, while the
functions of the colon and semicolon are
performed by a raised point (), known
as the ano teleia ( ).

 Spanish

uses an inverted question mark

at the beginning of a question and the
normal question mark at the end, as
well as an inverted exclamation mark at
the beginning of an exclamation and the
normal exclamation mark at the end.

 Arabic,

Urdu, and Persian languages

written from right to leftuse a
reversed question mark: , and a
reversed comma: . This is a modern
innovation; pre-modern Arabic did not
use punctuation. Hebrew, which is also
written from right to left, uses the same
characters as in English,, and? .

 Originally,

Sanskrit had no punctuation.

In the 17th century, Sanskrit and
Marathi, both written in the Devanagari
script, started using the vertical bar (|)
to end a line of prose and double
vertical bars (||) in verse.

 Texts

in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

were generally left unpunctuated until
the modern era. In unpunctuated texts,
the grammatical structure of sentences
in classical writing is inferred from
context.

 Most

punctuation marks in modern

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have
similar functions to their English
counterparts; however, they often look
different and have different customary
rules.

Choose a language
Now

research what punctuation marks

they have and how they use them.
Present your findings in the pyramid I
have given you.