PrimeErective

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's rash city, Jake, rash city!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.

The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.

Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.

What's your NAme

How OLD (are you)?

Where are you FROm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I guess in this example, "who is your daddy?" Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Good luck getting consistent cuts while you're freehanding. The idea is to make the nice flat cat scratching pad, and also being able to make the tool with the tool printer you have at home

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the seahorse was talking about the microphone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I guess Reading is not his strong suit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I think the bottom line is that if you're still using Google Maps instead of Android Auto, you're bad and should feel bad. Personally, I hate every car newer than mine because of similar practices in what seems like the entire auto industry

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