• smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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.