Slovene punctuation the clause keeps its own punctuation mark. A question mark need not be a sentence terminating punctuation mark; it may be used in inserted sentences. In certain cases, the question mark may be doubled (for emphasis of a repeated question), or it may be combined with an exclamation mark in emphatic and emotional contexts. Non-Syntactical Use A question mark can be used non-syntactically if it denotes doubt. Syntactical Use A colon (:) is a left-leaning punctuation mark. It is used in various ways as described below. 1. to introduce direct speech after an accompanying sentence 2. in enumeration, expatiation or
Slovene punctuation is important to realise that the full stop is left-leaning; the space is intentional (yet only few are aware of that). If a non-syntactical full stop is at the end of a sentence, it is not usual to append another full stop to it; however, doing so is not incorrect. Syntactical Use An ellipsis (in Slovene, literally 'three dots') (…) is a non-leaning punctuation mark. It expresses omission of words. Any other punctuation may or may not be appended; a full stop is usually (but not always) omitted, but other punctuation normally remains: When emphasising that whatever has been left