• Ilandar@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    were already answered

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

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        9 months ago

        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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        9 months ago

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