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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Nit-picking
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 05:56:39 GMT
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Recently, I planted my tongue firmly in my cheek, and typed:
>>  I wonder why people insist on putting question marks at the ends of 
>>declarative sentences?

And later, timd@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Orpheus) said...
>Probably because they are asking a question.  Or expressing doubt or
>unsureness.  

  This would be the correct response to my statement if I had ended it 
with a period, rather than a question mark.  The question mark, however, 
turns the statement into a question, and the =correct= answer to the 
question which I did, in fact, ask is...

..."Yes".

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                              ==----=                    Steve MacGregor
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