Posted by Blinky the Shark on 12/25/89 11:48

dorayme wrote:
> 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.

The question mark was misused.

This is one of my pet peves of expression, like its cousin "up-talk", as
in: "We went to the zoo? We saw some animals? I really liked the
bears?"


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