• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Your “rhetorical question” and objections you raised were already answered in this thread before you raised them.

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        were already answered

        It sounds like you still don’t understand what a rhetorical question is.

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            Why are you asking me? I’m not the one accusing others of “nOt rEaDiNg dA tHrEaD bEfOrE u AsKeD a qUeStOn”. My top level reply was on-topic. No one has actually provided an on-topic reply to it yet.

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          Seems you’re the one who doesn’t understand what a rhetorical question is. Hint - it’s not what you retrospectively call a question when you get called out on your laziness.

          Nor is it rhetorical when you ask a question and then spend several lines going on about it, and making it clear that you really did want to talk about an answer.

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            it’s not what you retrospectively call a question when you get called out on your laziness.

            Didn’t happen.

            Nor is it rhetorical when you ask a question and then spend several lines going on about it, and making it clear that you really did want to talk about an answer.

            Also didn’t happen.

          • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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            Schrodinger’s rhetorical question is when you decide whether your question was rhetorical or not based on people’s reaction to it.