Posted by dorayme on 11/14/26 11:48

In article <slrne783fj.eto.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > Blinky the Shark wrote:
> >dorayme wrote:
> >> > Blinky the Shark 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.
>

You saying "we just need to have a clue about writing" is a funny
way to make this point.

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

So you say. But it is not true. And it shows you don't understand
or really believe what I said and you claim to have meant. The
question mark had a function. It may not have the function that
you were taught at straight school but it had a meaning and a
point that you should have been able to understand and
appreciate: as a wondering by the writer, a question he or she is
asking him or herself about whether or not his or her shrink did
or did not say something of a certain kind...

> > 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.

If you do not understand this, you cannot know what I did because
context is important (as important as freedom - hi Luigi!) and
everything you say suggests you have too wooden a view. Context
is the life blood of everything. Wake up!

As for what it means, it is relevant to explain this to you as
you seem to take the opposite view "You should know" said you.
The point is simple enough. Sometimes a person can forget or have
good reason to forget things and is not in the best position to
know. Someone who has been informed of this earlier might be in a
better position to know.

--
dorayme

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