PrimeErective
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- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
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?
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
Could you give some examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on under the ice 1 month ago:
Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read
- Comment on 666 1 month ago:
Outrageously AWESOME
- Comment on xkcd #2983: Monocaster 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 2 months ago:
I feel like the old guys in my area just talk about their health problems 😂
Something to look forward to, I suppose
- Comment on Hemoglobin 3 months ago:
Hemogoblincore
- Comment on first things first 4 months ago:
… Oh my
- Comment on By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic 4 months ago:
I get that. Where is the irony? I think to be ironic there needs to be some air of unexpectedness. I certainly think it’s amusing to say that you were buffing a nerf gun, but maybe not unexpected
But I think Alanis Morissette would be on board
- Comment on By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic 4 months ago:
Why is that ironic?
- Comment on Maths 5 months ago:
Or sport?
- Comment on The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar starved that day apparently. 5 months ago:
What’s this on your head?
A brain sucker!
What’s it doing?
Starving!
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
I like the cut of your jib
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 8 months ago:
Why would I fight you? you’re right
- Comment on And thus began the salem witch trials 9 months ago:
Very nice
- Comment on Really any holiday 11 months ago:
Joanna!
- Comment on We all know this happens everyday. 1 year ago:
A single mom who works two jobs who loves her kids and never stops. With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter…
