Timeline for How would I not know anything
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| Feb 13, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd also add that Why wouldn't I know that? is a perfectly natural contracted / re-ordered version (as a rhetorical question), but How wouldn't I know that? sounds exceptionally unlikely. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | For second person, it seems to me that How would you not know that? is a somewhat less idiomatic version of How could you not know that? - invariably a rhetorical question expressing surprise / disappointment that addressee was unaware of something. Using why doesn't work at all with could there, but Why would you not know it? sounds more like a genuine enquiry (albeit weirdly context-sensitive, as in probing whether a person in high authority might have been aiming for "plausible deniability"). | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | pinnacle | Thank you Mr.Colin! Next time i will try to frame my question in a better way. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 13:35 | vote | accept | pinnacle | ||
| Feb 13, 2018 at 13:33 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |