Author Topic: Guess what? (Read 1213 times)

Mr. Anderson · « **on:** May 26, 2006, 04:22:37 PM »

Why is this always written with a question mark? It's a command and should have a period, shouldn't it?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2006, 05:17:08 PM »

Yup. However, it often has somewhat of a rising inflection, not unlike a question, and then of course there's the word what in there. I think those two things together throw a lot of people off.

rivka · « **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2006, 06:41:27 PM »

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Why is this always written with a question mark?

It is not infrequently written with an exclamation point.

*ducks thrown objects*

Mr. Anderson · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2006, 06:54:01 PM »

"Sooner or later, this forum is going to max out on hyperliteralness."

Porter · « **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:12:01 PM »

Hey. That's my sig.

Teshi · « **Reply #5 on:** May 28, 2006, 04:31:06 PM »

I never thought about this before.

*paradigm shift*