You see, just like I said about the brain (and/or its capacity),
that we spend too much of it arguing with ourselves.
Just think how much smarter Rums-felled could be!
Not that smarter in this case would necessarily be better.
/wayne
At 12:16 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote:
>What are they called? I think they are called rhetorical questions.
>
>Winsor
>A typical American who is flummoxed by the subjunctive and understands
>no difference between may and might. Maybe.
>
>> Asking and answering his own questions is a particularly American (one
>> from the USA) habit in my experience :-). When I was learning to fly a
>> lightweight fighter then built by General Dynamics I was often
>> embarrassed in briefings because I tended to try to answer the question
>> posed by the instructor.
>>
>> Chris
>> On 16 Jul 2004, at 06:08, Jim Brokaw wrote:
>>
>>>
>> snip
>>> Well yes, it might be.
>>> Should he have had an end-game plan before entering Iraq? Well, any
>>> wise warrior would have. Is his habit of asking and answering his own
>>> questions very annoying? Well yes, I think it is.
>>> --
>>>
>>> Jim Brokaw
>>> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>>>
>> <|_:-)_|>
>>
>> C M I Barker
>> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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