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To: Lane3 who wrote (65026)	5/10/2008 9:25:19 PM
From: DanD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544240

I don't see the point. What would make that worth an exhaustive study? That one country has a longer or shorter life expectancy than another is good only for a moment of national pride or for answering questions on Jeopardy, seems to me. From :http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsARhetoricalQuestion.htm Definition A rhetorical question is an illocutionary act that * has the direct illocutionary force of a question, and * is not generally used with the expectation of an answer but with some different, indirect force, such as o a command o a tentative statement, and o an evaluation. Your above statement satisfies at least two of the three statements above. How am I to assume it is not rhetorical? (BTW that is a rhetorical question.)