Rhetorical question
Hugh Glass wrote:
I live in a two story house. The water heater is in the basement. When I turn on the tub faucet in the morning I can hear the pitch change when the hot water finally comes through. Anyone care to guess why? I thought it was a rhetorical question. |
Rhetorical question
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in
: Hugh Glass wrote: I live in a two story house. The water heater is in the basement. When I turn on the tub faucet in the morning I can hear the pitch change when the hot water finally comes through. Anyone care to guess why? I thought it was a rhetorical question. Well, I always took rhetorical as meaning a question with no answer or only one answer. So maybe it's a quiz or something :-) |
Rhetorical question
Al Bundy wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in : Hugh Glass wrote: I live in a two story house. The water heater is in the basement. When I turn on the tub faucet in the morning I can hear the pitch change when the hot water finally comes through. Anyone care to guess why? I thought it was a rhetorical question. Well, I always took rhetorical as meaning a question with no answer or only one answer. So maybe it's a quiz or something :-) Don't own a dictionary? It amazes me how many people can't find the 2 minutes to look up a word in the dictionary. Even more amazing is that some people don't own a dictionary. My home and the home I grew up in always had at least 2 dictionaries and most of the time 4 or 5 dictionaries. Ok. A rhetorical question is one that has the purpose of eliciting an effect and not an answer. Many people use "big" words that they don't know what they mean. They are seldom embarrassed when someone points out the meaning and usually just bluster about. I only point out the meaning because you are not the OP. |
Rhetorical question
I suspect we've all noticed that the splash of hot water sounds softer than that of cold. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that it is due to weakening of hydrogen bond clumping of water molecules as they transition away from freezing pt and toward boiling pt. |
Rhetorical question
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in
: Al Bundy wrote: "George E. Cawthon" wrote in : Hugh Glass wrote: I live in a two story house. The water heater is in the basement. When I turn on the tub faucet in the morning I can hear the pitch change when the hot water finally comes through. Anyone care to guess why? I thought it was a rhetorical question. Well, I always took rhetorical as meaning a question with no answer or only one answer. So maybe it's a quiz or something :-) Don't own a dictionary? It amazes me how many people can't find the 2 minutes to look up a word in the dictionary. Even more amazing is that some people don't own a dictionary. My home and the home I grew up in always had at least 2 dictionaries and most of the time 4 or 5 dictionaries. Charming Ok. A rhetorical question is one that has the purpose of eliciting an effect and not an answer. Many people use "big" words that they don't know what they mean. They are seldom embarrassed when someone points out the meaning and usually just bluster about. I only point out the meaning because you are not the OP. OK (Ok is incorrect). Yes I have a dictionary. And I use it. It doesn't give me half-assed definitions like off the Internet. But I don't use it for every word every time I use it. I don't need to look up rhetorical any more than I need to look up what the Pythagorean theorem is nor prove that the diagonal of a square is the SQRT(2) * side. I pulled out that old dictionary just for you because maybe 20 years ago I KNOW I saw the definition as I described. I have no idea where my keys are though. From: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language New College Edition Copyright 1979 Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, MA rhetorical question. A question to which no answer is expected, or to which only one answer may be made. Link to page copy: http://i12.tinypic.com/2w74nj9.jpg They are seldom embarrassed when someone points out the meaning and usually just bluster about. Glad you mentioned that. I only point out the meaning because you are not the OP. Ain't (ouch! bad English) as sharp as I used to be. That one escapes me. |
Rhetorical question
Al Bundy wrote:
Well, I always took rhetorical as meaning a question with no answer or only one answer. So maybe it's a quiz or something :-) Don't own a dictionary? It amazes me how many people can't find the 2 minutes to look up a word in the dictionary. Even more amazing is that some people don't own a dictionary. My home and the home I grew up in always had at least 2 dictionaries and most of the time 4 or 5 dictionaries. Charming Ok. A rhetorical question is one that has the purpose of eliciting an effect and not an answer. Many people use "big" words that they don't know what they mean. They are seldom embarrassed when someone points out the meaning and usually just bluster about. I only point out the meaning because you are not the OP. OK (Ok is incorrect). Yes I have a dictionary. And I use it. It doesn't give me half-assed definitions like off the Internet. But I don't use it for every word every time I use it. I don't need to look up rhetorical any more than I need to look up what the Pythagorean theorem is nor prove that the diagonal of a square is the SQRT(2) * side. I pulled out that old dictionary just for you because maybe 20 years ago I KNOW I saw the definition as I described. I have no idea where my keys are though. From: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language New College Edition Copyright 1979 Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, MA rhetorical question. A question to which no answer is expected, or to which only one answer may be made. You still need a dictionary, maybe it should just be a different one. Two of my dictionaries say what I wrote, Websters 3rd International adds a reason " for which there is only one possible answer." The key points of each dictionary definition are are (1) the question is asked for effect, (2) no answer is expected, and Websters adds (3) because only one answer is possible. The point is NO answer is expected. I only point out the meaning because you are not the OP. Ain't (ouch! bad English) as sharp as I used to be. That one escapes me. What escapes you? that you aren't the OP? or that I wasn't going to point out the error to the OP? |
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