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Its one thing to say 'rate my startup', but to say 'look how much I'm making' is something totally different.
by palehose 18y ago
Its one thing to say 'rate my startup', but to say 'look how much I'm making' is something totally different.
- Tichy 18y agoThe latter will probably generate considerably more interest?
- randallsquared 18y agoI notice that ending your statement with a question mark seems to help in avoiding downvotes?
- pg 18y agoActually this was a big feature of the new PC intonation that appeared in the late 80s and early 90s. Undergrads started saying declarative sentences with interrogative intonation-- as if they were actually questions. This allowed one to disclaim some responsibility for whatever one was saying, and yet at the same time to compel a response from the other person. This way of speaking has now passed down to high school students and isn't associated with any specific sort of ideas (unless you count the empty set as a type of idea), but it was originally quite a nasty piece of conversational jiujitsu.
- Tichy 18y agoInteresting, but I would like to point out that there is also the "rhetoric question" which I think predates the PC movement.
- randallsquared 18y agoRhetorical questions are still phrased as questions. It was "declarative sentence structure married to a question mark" that I was joking about. HN didn't think it was funny, clearly. :)
- Tichy 18y agoI for one am thankful that you have saved me from "question mark creep" (hopefully).
- shiranaihito 18y agoSince we're clarifying things, I believe you meant "jujutsu" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu ). Imagine how a posh, and possibly a bit poncey Englishman might say "who", and you should be close to the sound of the U's in "jujutsu". The first U is elongated, and the rest are short.
- herdrick 18y agoWow, really? What else made/makes up the PC intonation?