PrimeErective

joined 1 year ago

You merely adopted the bathroom! I was born in it, moulded by it!

I, too, want to know what that strap is called... For a friend

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I thought I read that grapefruit can also cause problems with certain ones

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

It's this loss(less compression)

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It says if you can read the sign, you're in range. It's an anomaly, after all.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (11 children)
[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months 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.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 points 2 months 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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

 
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