Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Incompetently asked and unanswerable 2
Following last week's pet peeve on people who don't know how to ASK A FUCKING QUESTION. Here's the ultimate useless question:
Well now, Ade. Can I call you Ade? Okay, I'll call you Ade. Let's parse out this question in the only possible way. The question mark at the end of your sentence indicates that the text before the question mark is the content, the gist as it were, of your question. So you are asking for information on ? .
We can look up ? in a dictionary or Wiki for you. We find:
Must admit I've never heard ? called eroteme. The term would more appropriately apply to =D or {(.)} but it was probably invented by some ivory-tower creature who claimed to be above such nonsense.
Turned out to be a literal FUCKING QUESTION after all. See Rohrschach jokes.
¶ 1:19 PM
Following last week's pet peeve on people who don't know how to ASK A FUCKING QUESTION. Here's the ultimate useless question:
Well now, Ade. Can I call you Ade? Okay, I'll call you Ade. Let's parse out this question in the only possible way. The question mark at the end of your sentence indicates that the text before the question mark is the content, the gist as it were, of your question. So you are asking for information on ? .
We can look up ? in a dictionary or Wiki for you. We find:
The question mark [ ? ] (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism)[1] is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. The question mark is not used for indirect questions. The question mark glyph is also often used in place of missing or unknown data. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+003F ? QUESTION MARK (HTML ?).
Must admit I've never heard ? called eroteme. The term would more appropriately apply to =D or {(.)} but it was probably invented by some ivory-tower creature who claimed to be above such nonsense.
Turned out to be a literal FUCKING QUESTION after all. See Rohrschach jokes.
¶ 1:19 PM
