Comments on: Negative Questions http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4205 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:42:26 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4205 I was about to recommend a pain reliever for punctuation. Then I realized, he's probably on another continent anyway. Now MY head hurts. I was about to recommend a pain reliever for punctuation.
Then I realized, he’s probably on another continent anyway.

Now MY head hurts.

]]> by: * (asterisk) http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4193 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:04:51 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4193 I don't know. Like I say, my head hurts. I don’t know. Like I say, my head hurts.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4174 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:40:18 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4174 Ed R - Not at all, and how can I not appreciate that? Sam - spot on. * - Aren't we saying the same thing? Ed R - Not at all, and how can I not appreciate that?

Sam - spot on.

* - Aren’t we saying the same thing?

]]> by: Sam http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4148 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:54:50 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4148 Shouldn't you ask questions that way? Shouldn’t you ask questions that way?

]]> by: * (asterisk) http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4129 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:35:50 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4129 This confuses me, not least because I find it perfectly normal. And I'm not a northerner. "Aren't you eating that?" I'll ask Wife if I want to swipe something off her plate. "Haven't you got any cash on you?", too. My head hurts now. This confuses me, not least because I find it perfectly normal. And I’m not a northerner.

“Aren’t you eating that?” I’ll ask Wife if I want to swipe something off her plate.

“Haven’t you got any cash on you?”, too.

My head hurts now.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4118 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:38:38 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4118 Support?! Have I not been supporting you?! ;) Support?! Have I not been supporting you?!
;)

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4113 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:43:49 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4113 Exactly! Finally - some support around here. Exactly!

Finally - some support around here.

]]> by: guy http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4112 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:29:10 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4112 Cliff - aren't you a pedant? Cliff - aren’t you a pedant?

]]> by: ted http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4110 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:35:22 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/12/21/negative-questions/#comment-4110 It is a northern thing. On a train with a Japanese once, I said, 'Isn't that draughty? Yes, he said. I got up to close the window. It's fine, he said. I don't know which of us was more confused. It is a northern thing. On a train with a Japanese once, I said, ‘Isn’t that draughty? Yes, he said. I got up to close the window. It’s fine, he said.
I don’t know which of us was more confused.

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