please empty your brain below
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Is this the beginning of a series about punctuation marks?
DavidC | 13.10.19 - 7:25 a.m. | #
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Erm, I can't remember what I was going to ask,now. 😳
Jo W | 13.10.19 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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A road to nowhere is impossible.
I was tempted to include the word "surely" or to ask a question.
kev | 13.10.19 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Please can I make a totally irrelevant comment?
popartist | 13.10.19 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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A road that goes in a closed circle is a road to nowhere.
Joho | Homepage | 13.10.19 - 10:57 a.m. | #
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“Forgive me if I am being unusually dense, but if you can only use one train then doesn't that preclude changing lines anywhere?” seemed harmless enough to me.
Billy Chipz | 13.10.19 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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I love how you arranged the questions according to their length rather than by date.
anonymous | 13.10.19 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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On the Rory Stewart one, that actually feels to me like a polite way of saying "I think you're wrong, but it's possible I'm wrong in thinking that", and so allows the other party to reply "oops, you're right" or "you'd think so, but..".
In either case, neither party has actually accused the other of being wrong, but truth has been arrived at. This feels like a good thing to me.
Nick | Homepage | 13.10.19 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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...not another post about comments, comment.
Grumpy Anon | 13.10.19 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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The Rory Stewart one is a particularly good example of an unnecessary question - two in fact.
The person asking knew they were right, as indeed they were.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.10.19 - 2:56 p.m. | #
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Given that a rhetorical question makes a point rather than requires a direct answer - and often is intended to promote a discussion or seek confirmation that the reader understands the intended message - are we permitted to ask rhetorical questions?
Frank F | 13.10.19 - 3:31 p.m. | #
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I'm unsure whether you dislike your commentators or the unsolicited marketing emails most.
Blue Witch | 13.10.19 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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The answer "yes" to questions of the form
"With, or without …...?"
or
"Was it luck or careful planning...."
is accurate but uninformative, but a true pedant would have put them in the category of questions to which we knew the answer was "yes".
timbo | 13.10.19 - 5:48 p.m. | #
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Upstairs, front left as every small child knows. 'Come on Auntie, we'll miss the bus'.
Johnny Topaz | 13.10.19 - 10:39 p.m. | #
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As the author of the Rory Stewart comment, I thank Nick for stating in different words what I was getting at. When I commented, I was unclear as to whether Stewart was leaving asap or standing down at the next election (the case). A quick look at the Wikipedia reference to Stewards of The Chiltern Hundreds actually to me reinforces the point that an ignoramus like me might actually be unclear as to the precise moment a 'resigning' MP actually is no longer an MP. Before you jump on me again for putting 'resigning' in quotes, until 5 minutes again I was unaware that legally an MP cannot resign hence the Chiltern Hundreds device.
DG, you write a great blog, but I do think with age you are becoming rather touchy. Unless someone posts a totally out of order comment eg foul language, racist remarks, threats whatever please leave alone.
It is some years since The Times let me honour its letters page but my local paper lets everyone have their say, inane though some of the letters may appear to some of the readership. I know it's your platform but let your fans, your readership, have our say without unnecessary censorship please.
J. | 13.10.19 - 11:08 p.m. | #
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You can't sit upstairs on a single decker bus.
timbo | 14.10.19 - 6:59 a.m. | #
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rhetorical question: noun a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
Andrew | 14.10.19 - 1:07 p.m. | #
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