PrimeErective

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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.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 3 days 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?

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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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?

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 18 points 1 week 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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought the seahorse was talking about the microphone

I guess Reading is not his strong suit

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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel that. I got a Garmin watch that thankfully has a generic media control. Going the way things are going, maybe its days are numbered and it'll be removed without warning, despite not being Google

 
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