Timeline for Is there a word or term to describe a statement that implies a question so sufficiently that the question is not actually included?
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 18:03 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Mari-Lou: Learning a tonal language or two gives you good exercise in analysing the pitch of things you say. :-) | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 9:41 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @JanusBahsJacquet Your ability to express in writing where words should be stressed, and how a sentence should rise and fall in pitch and do in such a clear way that the reader is able to follow those instructions and reproduce the exact manner, is fantastic. I just wish I could do the same. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 0:16 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I can imagine this said with two different intonations. Both have heavy stress on I’m. One has a rising inflection on I’m, after which the tone is more or less steady (and high) for the rest of the sentence. The other has a falling inflection on I’m, a steady (and low) tone on the bad, and a lightly rising inflection on guy. I imagine that bib and @jwpat7 are probably talking about (variations on) these two different intonational patterns. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 23:40 | comment | added | bib | @jwpat7 With that inflection, how does that come across as a question rather than a declaration (admission)? | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 23:26 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | As I say it, the first word (I'm) gets most of the accent. The other words have about the same tone as each other. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 22:26 | comment | added | bib | @jwpat7 As I think about it, there is a slight emphasis on bad and that may make an unaccented guy sound a bit rising. But I still hear a slight rise, especially at the end of guy (yes, I know it's one syllable but that's what it sounds like to me). | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | Upvoted, although I don't agree there's a rising inflection on guy in the example | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 17:31 | comment | added | Ste | Absolutely agree. It's absolutely obvious in spoken word whereas the question mark is a necessity in the written form. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 17:27 | history | answered | bib | CC BY-SA 3.0 |