doesn't "rhetorical" mean we're not really meant to comment? Or perhaps that the author plans to ignore any comments...
And what sort of a game is that, putting up a "purely rhetorical question" on LJ (which -- admittedly, this is my dream -- is all about the commenting...)?
[The above is offered as an example of what this author (possibly incorrectly) believes is a rhetorical question. Because I might come back and read any response to this, but I don't think so, mainly because it's not my journal. But is that ignoring? Might not ignoring require some extra bit of effort to make something "go away"? (Now I know there will be no easy internet answer for this one... referring to how easy it really was to go find out what a rhetorical questions is. But the requirements of ignoring, that's more complex.)]
What I had in mind was more along the lines of anacoenosis (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/A/anacoenosis.htm), that is, to begin a dialogue with a question, rather than merely seeking a specific literal answer to a question.
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Um,
Date: 2005-08-01 09:53 pm (UTC)And what sort of a game is that, putting up a "purely rhetorical question" on LJ (which -- admittedly, this is my dream -- is all about the commenting...)?
[The above is offered as an example of what this author (possibly incorrectly) believes is a rhetorical question. Because I might come back and read any response to this, but I don't think so, mainly because it's not my journal. But is that ignoring? Might not ignoring require some extra bit of effort to make something "go away"? (Now I know there will be no easy internet answer for this one... referring to how easy it really was to go find out what a rhetorical questions is. But the requirements of ignoring, that's more complex.)]
Re: Um,
Date: 2005-08-01 10:45 pm (UTC)Have you ever played the Question Game?