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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "What's up?" It's the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?

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• warbond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly, you’re talking about an exchange like this?

  Person 1: It sure is hot today.
  Person 2: I know, right?

  Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, “It sure is, isn’t it?” or, “Don’t I know it!” feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems to be English-specific. German, for example, doesn’t do that.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always interpreted it as “I know what you mean, and we are in agreement, right?”

  I say it often, and Ive never associated the “right?” with “do I know this?”

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