Posted by Blinky the Shark on 12/28/61 11:48

dorayme wrote:
> In article <slrne77se9.e19.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>> > In article <slrne778ie.chi.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>> > Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> dorayme wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I could swear my shrink said this at some stage?
>> >>
>> >> Why are you asking? You'd be the one in the best position to know.
>> >
>> > I wasn't asking.
>>
>> Your question mark says you were.
>>
>> > A common mistake, to be misled by "?"s. We need webcam newsgroups
>> > where we can make er.. er... hand signals to each other...
>>
>> No, we just need to have a clue about writing.
>
> Writing is not the only point here. There is a question about how
> you read even less than perfect earthly ways of expression.

It was my point.

> "...?" is not necessarily a normal question with a true or false
> answer nor one that requires or seeks an answer, even a vague

That is true; some of them are rhetorical questions not normal
questions. Yours was a declarative statement with a misapplied question
mark.

> one. Nor does the act of a person "asking" what might have
> transpired in private between that person and another mean that
> one or both of the is in the best position to judge.

Whaatever that means, it wasn't what you did.

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