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Re: 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...?

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

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

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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

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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?

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Did Bungleau just top one over ungie again? :D

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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?

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

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

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

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Didn't you do just that?

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Can you be more specific?

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I can, but would anyone understand me?

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Would they admit it if they did?

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Would I be a bad guy if I said no?

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Originally Posted by Spirits Reborn (Post 1208220)

Would I be a bad guy if I said no?

Don't they arrest bad guys and then lock them in small dirty dank little rooms with a man named Bubba?

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Is that only if I'm lucky?

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Is it getting weird in here, or is that just me?

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Didn't you ask that before, and we decided it was you?

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Does anyone else remember that happening?

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Originally Posted by Unglaublich Verwustung (Post 1208257)

Is that only if I'm lucky?

If you *are* lucky, or if you're *getting* lucky?

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Originally Posted by Unglaublich Verwustung (Post 1208283)

Didn't you ask that before, and we decided it was you?

Damn. Am I repeating myself?

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Can't you just read the entire thread to find out whether I'm telling the truth? I thought you'd finished your finished exams, so what else have you got to do with your time?

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Originally Posted by Unglaublich Verwustung (Post 1208319)

Can't you just read the entire thread to find out whether I'm telling the truth? I thought you'd finished your finished exams, so what else have you got to do with your time?

I... I have... Darn. Have you just unintentionally discovereed how empty and meaningless my life is? :P

Re: Has there been a question thread before?

Wouldn't she have *always* finished her finished exams? Except for those in Finnish... is it truly possible to finish your Finnish exams? Or is it to Finnish your finished exams?

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Who here ever did a Finnish exam?

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I'm sure Raistlin Majere, Olli Kalma, and Iron Greasel have taken Finnish exams. Anyone else?

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Was I drunk when I posted that question? If I wasn't, should I have been?

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Didn't DS post that question? Or were you thinking of another one?

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Are we going in circles again?

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Have we ever not gone in circles?

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Wasn't there the time when we were on swings rather than roundabouts?

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Did someone say "Yes"?

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What's a finish exam? is that an exam you never have to start?

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Originally Posted by Unglaublich Verwustung (Post 1208426)

Was I drunk when I posted that question? If I wasn't, should I have been?

When aren't you drunk when you post a question?

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when he's posting in his sleep?

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Originally Posted by vesselle (Post 1208544)

when he's posting in his sleep?

He can do that?

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Doesn't everyone? I mean, is it that much different from the "going to work in your pajamas (or lack thereof) dreams?