First | Prev || Next | Last
¿Question #5256?
puffinge: Any statement is a question if you end it with a question mark?

ocdspectrum: This is true?
engdy: Not if it's so easy to turn it into a ternary operator: String conversation = "Question answered?".isEmpty() ? "Yup!" : "Nope.";
Woelf: Probably?
jasta6: I don't think so??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Jbrady: Yes
Spirit of 70: No, you could just have a poor grasp of the rules of language.
nexttothemoon: Ya right?
Rubric: I prefer the Spanish method. By the time you've read the sentence, you already know it was a question. Putting ? at the end seems redundant.
pusherman42: Yes?
Polgara: not really
ZeroZilla: A question mark indicates your intent to use the preceeding sentence in a questioning fashion. Usually, if it's closer to being a statement, you'd want to dress it up, to be clear. Like the Canadians, with their stereotypical 'this is a statement..., eh?', or with an introductory term, as in 'so, this is a statement?' Still, it's perfectly acceptable to use it the way you did in your example, only I think most people would understand that as an exclaimed or ejaculated question, like 'It's on fire?'
vandemonium: It is?
Geekymike: I have pickles?
WonderLlama: Not any. But most.
ironsizide: Insufficient Data
chockle: This is a question mark: ?
Ironmaus: No?
sotc77: sure
DHEK: Hmmm... maybe. But if it's not done well (like yours), it just ends up looking silly.
Eric Haas: If you say so?
JustKen: No it's not?
Chris Page: No? What statements are hidden questions.
martybjsg: No?
mrspank: .
mbrna: Why not?
Leo-T: No?
GrimJester: Is a question a statement if you end it with a period.
dmomo: No?
MochaKimono: Yes? It is?
vampywife: for the most part, unless you are a dork and hit the question mark button instead of the period.
cad614: No, that's just poor grammar.
arkibet: Only if spoken with the right inflection?
brainrob: It isn't
_Kael_: yes
Shotmagnet: a stupid puffin says "what?"
scriptorum: Wrong?
Igloo cool: ...
Randp: surely no?
MartinTrouman: That's not true?
Dhunam: Yes
klellingson: That would be incorrect.
n_and: Yes?
skrutsch: Possibly.
Superdeathflame: Yes?
Saphon: Could you explain the question again.
ZombyDawg: But a statement that isn't a question that ends with a question mark just looks stupid?
LemonyFresh: Oooook
SenorOcho: No it isn't?
confuse_a_cat: That's a tough call. You can probably pull it off if you end your sentence with an upward inflection in your voice as well.
bigbadsteve: yes?
skrebs: Is every question a command if you end with an exclamation point!
angrykane: Yes. Grammatically at least.
locusshifter: No?
CortexBomb: Question marks don't necessarily denote that the preceding statement is a question, they can also represent a rising tone in the voice showing that the answerer is willing to give an answer, but that it isn't definitive by any stretch
Lord_Prussian: Not necessarily, but pretty much
puffinge: It sure is especially if you speak it in an interogative tone?
jttm: Thats not a question?
skelebone: Sure not.
CDRodeffer: Not true
chaddyboy_2000: No, it isn't.