To: tonyt who wrote (17019 ) 3/10/1998 1:28:00 AM From: Flagrante Delictu Read Replies (2) | Respond to
tonyt, >> a rhetorical question << I would prefer not to have to do this. But, I think we have to start at the bottom . A question is a question. A question is not a declarative sentence. I will now quote what you wrote, " The question, for which FUGAZI supplied an answer to his own first question, the one where, as you noted appeared to be rhetorical, was " Some seemed to be confident that we'd learn of their decision this week. I guess not.", { I hate to inform you that from " Some " to "not" is not a question. Instead of a question, you have written two declarative sentences. These two sentences comprised FUGAZI's single answer to his own question} Unfortunately the aforementioned & the subsequent words appear to be an Abbott & Costello comedy routine. We pick up "so the question to which he supplied an answer was not his own first question but his own second question., that being the question of when we'd learn of their decision. not what that decision would be." FUGAZI didn't ask when we'd get the answer. He speculated that we would not get an answer as to when. Have you forgotten that you have already posted that his answer was "Some seemed to be confident that we'd learn of their decision this week .I guess not." Unfortunatly you misconstrued that answer to be a question, even though there were no question marks, and it was obviously not a question by any standard, no matter how low.
