Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve done it on rare occasions to emphasize the uncertainty of a claim.

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it's mostly people like me who use voice to text. You have to tell it the punctuation verbally.

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• 1D10@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use it as a way to say I’m pretty sure the thing I said is true but I have doubt.

  " the glasses are only cosmetic, question mark"

  Also turns out I’m pretty sure the devs patched the glasses,and they now negatively effect aim.

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• Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Copy/paste instead of linking because Lemmy doesn’t like me>

  I can shad a light on that! […]

  When we’re in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before they’re finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as “my opinion is …” And in the middle transfers to “oh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!”.

  Or I’m mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice …

  Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that it’s clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying “and perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a question” I fall back to “question mark.”

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve heard some people use it when they don’t have the rising inflection in their voice that usually denotes a question. I’ve also used and seen it used to mean dubious claim as the other poster mentioned! Not very commonly though.

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