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I'm a native English speaker and this trend confuses me pretty often. It's not always clear whether the person: 1. is sincerely asking a question 2. accidenta
by weberer 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker and this trend confuses me pretty often. It's not always clear whether the person:
1. is sincerely asking a question
2. accidentally hit they question mark key instead of the period
3. is mimicking the valley girl inflection
It's not that much of a problem here, but it's much more pronounced in places where people rarely use complete sentences to begin with. Such as chat rooms, etc.
- reddit_clone 5y ago> is mimicking the valley girl inflection :-) I was thinking this but couldn't find the right phrase. It could also be expressing uncertainty. You want to make an assertion but not 100% sure you are right. A question mark at the end expresses some self doubt and leaves it open to correction. I use '?' that way quite often.