Hi #phdchat.
What do you think of rhetorical questions as a communicative / pedagogical device?
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Replying to @generativist
-'Have you ever tried using rhetorical questions on Twitter?' -'Yeah, it's so annoying. People keep trying to answer them.'
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Replying to @untravel
yes.
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Replying to @generativist
Mother: [sings] How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man.... Homer: Seven. Lisa: No, Dad. It's a rhetorical question. Homer: Eight Lisa: Dad, do you even know what "rhetorical" means? Homer: Do *I* know what "rhetorical" means?
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Replying to @untravel
hahaha, that's a great setup
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Replying to @generativist
Same episode as this classic: SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a 160 years ago MR BURNS: Of course you’d say that, you have the brainpan of stagecoach tilterpic.twitter.com/jpW4wuNqw6
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