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0·2 months agoThe 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.
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?
Could you give some examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?
24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film
0·2 months agoGood luck getting consistent cuts while you’re freehanding. The idea is to make the nice flat cat scratching pad, and also being able to make the tool with the tool printer you have at home
Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read
21·2 months agoI guess Reading is not his strong suit
15·2 months agoA new browser touches the beacon
Unbelievably AWESOME
1·2 months agoHonestly, same. I want to play it so bad, but never liked turn based stuff
Mono wheel, mono wheel, MONO WHEEL!
1·2 months agoAlways wanted to learn, and I have a deck!
0·3 months agoI learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche”
So true
Love that this suggests that for vampires, it’s all in their head
2·1 year agoJust FYI, it might be pretty easy to replace the back lights. You can even get LED ones. Word of warning though, if the bulbs are built such that the polarity can be reversed, they’ll only work in one orientation. This is due to the nature of how LEDs work. I had to redo mine because I didn’t win all 3 coin flips when I installed them
7·1 year agoThat gets you in. How do you get back out?
I thought I read that grapefruit can also cause problems with certain ones