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In many languages the question mark can be the only difference on print between interrogative and declarative sentence, and as my native language is one of them
by anonymfus 7y ago
In many languages the question mark can be the only difference on print between interrogative and declarative sentence, and as my native language is one of them, I hope that English will develop in that direction.
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- shkkmo 7y agoEnglish can work that way too, converting statements to questions with inflection or the addition of a question mark. e.g. "You understand?" However, in this case, interpreting this as question rather than a statement leads us to see a question about the inner thoughts of the commenter, which clearly is not what was intended. What I believe was intended was to make a statement that was to be understood as uncertain. However, the "I think" prefix is all that is necessary for that and the addition of a question mark just creates uncertainty about the it being interrogative/declarative.
- jameskegel 7y agoI interpreted it as 'upspeak'