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Do they do that informally too? In formal English language writing, the majority of interrogative sentences can be correctly interpreted by their starting with "question words" or helping verbs. This breaks down in informal writing e.g. "you up?" vs ”Are you up?" In the little Spanish I know, I'd say "¿Estas despierto?" (I know I'm missing accents but I speak Spanish way more than I can read it.) Would I still text it to someone that way even though extra characters are what is typically taken off in informal writing? In the English example, the helping verb is removed. In the Spanish version, would the upside down question mark be removed?
Not used at all. It's even weird to see anyone do it outside of formal texts.