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Possible name change?

I'm becoming more convinced that perhaps I need to rename my blog: "Things I Wish I Could Say About Things I Read On Facebook, But Since Total Alienation Isn't Fun, I Will Blog About It Since No One Reads This Anyway."

Today, I saw somebody respond to an apparently dumb question with an equally dumb question, "Is that a question?"

Sigh.

I had to do the typing version of "bite my lip", which is in fact pointing my fingers in the opposite direction of the keyboard while having an internal conversation with my brain cells that want me to unleash torrents of sarcasm (that conversation can be concisely summarized as "shut up!").

But really, what I wanted to say in response to the exchange was that given the use of the question mark at the end of the sentence and the inquiring nature of the words, yes, that was in fact a question, according to standard grammatical and punctuation usage rules and regulations. Whatever those may be. And clearly the user has a firm grasp of the concept of the question because the answer was also in question form. What is this, Jeopardy?

And now, I have displayed my personal grasp of the concept of the question. And with that, my job is done here.

1 comments:

oso said...

"Way to make a statement. But was that sarcasm?" he exclaimed!