Ironworks Gaming Forum - Has there been a question thread before?

Have you read your question to verify exactly what you're asking? Or are you trying to run for US President so you can have a discussion about what the meaning of "is" is...?

Spirits Reborn

06-26-2008 02:20 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

what is?

Unglaublich Verwustung

06-27-2008 10:33 AM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Is that the is that is or the is that isn't?

Unglaublich Verwustung

06-27-2008 10:39 AM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bungleau (Post 1208048)

But don't most of them throw a couple of interrogative words at the end to turn it into a question? I mean, as opposed to just dropping in a question mark?

Didn't you notice that although I didn't use an interrogative, as you so rightly point out, I did use an adverb of certainty, which was obviously used to express my conviction of the validity of the mooted point whilst the question mark showed my preference for corroboration of the same?

:D

Bungleau

06-27-2008 11:11 AM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unglaublich Verwustung (Post 1207987)

But (my old English teacher would hate that, I once wrote a 10 page essay in which the first sentence of each paragraph started with 'But', I did another similar one whereby they all started with 'And'...but I digress) since a rhetorical question is one that requires no answer because the answer is obvious and doesn't need to be stated, and not all of these questions have obvious answers and so may occasionally need to be stated, although we don't actually do so, this surely makes the thread a mixture of different question types, and thus corroborates the relevance of my earlier question?

But since you're using an adverb of certainty (surely, in this case), doesn't that then indicate that there *is* no question? Or else the adverb of certainty would certainly no longer apply, would it?

Spirits Reborn

06-27-2008 02:51 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Did Bungleau just top one over ungie again? :D

Unglaublich Verwustung

06-27-2008 05:38 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Surely you realise that the use of "surely" in this instance, although mid-way and not simply at the start of a sentence, nor used in the standard position before any auxilary verbs or, for that matter, as a discourse connective, is one where the use of an adverb of certainty predefines the interrogative intent?

Dragonshadow

06-27-2008 05:50 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Must you post questions more than a line long this often? :P Heh

Unglaublich Verwustung

06-27-2008 05:58 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Can I answer "yes" whilst pretending it's a question?

Spirits Reborn

06-27-2008 10:15 PM

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Didn't you do just that?