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Re: rhetorically speaking

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, May 17, 2004, 8:27
Staving Stephen Mulraney:
>Peter Bleackley wrote: > >>Staving Mark P. Line: >> >>>It would be interesting to know if there are any spoken or written >>>natlangs that have obligatory marking of rhetorical questions. >> >> >>There used to be a rhetorical question mark, which was a left-right >>flip of >>the normal one. However, printers never really took to it. It should be >>possible in LaTeX, however. >There used to be a rhetorical, flipped question mark? Interesting, but >when are we talking about?
Don't you read New Scientist? You'll find the answer at http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=1&id=mg17623726.800 Pete

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