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Yes, but it's easy to turn any declarative sentence into a question, n'est-ce pas? Well, isn't it?


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what about a rhetorical question then?!


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Why?


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Why not?



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Well, that covers both of them, doesn't it?


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>>what about a rhetorical question then?!

>Why?

how was it that it wasn't perfectly clear that my question required no question?!!?



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what? Somebody asked a question?



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how was it that it wasn't perfectly clear that my question required no question?!!?

Doesn't this bring us back to (do'h) "What is the meaning of life?

If an interrobang is only 1/2 of a question, does this "?!!?" mean there's a whole question in there... somewhere?


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I'm HERE so all of you must be there--but here is there to you-all, right?

Has that word "interrobang" been around for a while?
Does the punctuation work backwards!?


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Whenfor is it that there becomes here and now becomes then?


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