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The added question mark in the HN submission makes little sense.
by cubefox 10mo ago
The added question mark in the HN submission makes little sense.
- nkrisc 10mo agoIt also makes it grammatically incorrect. If it were actually a question it should be, “Why are German strings everywhere?”
- cubefox 10mo agoThe other form seems to be an Indian English colloquialism.
- thaumasiotes 10mo agoDo you mean "Why German strings are everywhere?" as an interrogative form? I doubt that's specific to India. I had a teacher in high school who was Greek and who characteristically asked us "what it could be?", meaning "what could it be?". Questions in Mandarin Chinese use the same sentence structure as their related statements. I imagine this is really common across languages.