I find responding to informally posed questions which are not self consistent with answers of the form, > This is the best way I can think to formalize your qu

I find responding to informally posed questions which are not self consistent with answers of the form, > This is the best way I can think to formalize your question. These are some ways it's different than what you asked, but here's why I think it close enough, and this is the answer in this case. are usually better than asserting, > There's absolutely no way to formalize your question. It's utter nonsense and I won't answer it. Even when, to the answerer, the proposed formalization seems much different from the informal question, the questioner is often satisfied with the answer.