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Why do some people think that putting a ? at the end of a statement automatically makes it a question?

Do people really expect an answer to something that isn't even a question to begin with?

Update:

Let me clarify. I meant here on "Answers." You don't ask rhetorical questions on "Answers" because that would completely defeat the purpose of the site's name, wouldn't it? It just seems like a lot of people make statements that would be better left on their LiveJournals than a site that is for people looking for ANSWERS to their questions.

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    These people obviously lack the intelligence to form a declarative sentence. Either that or they lack the self esteem to make a declarative sentence. Some people always want others to be in agreement to serve as a support for their own psyche.

  • 2 decades ago

    There are people in this multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-language world, who have only begun learning English. They wouldn't sometimes know how to ask a proper question. So they just use the question mark to demonstrate what they're saying is actually a question.

  • 2 decades ago

    yes i see your point i dont think it matters because most of the time i dont use a question mark and people still understand that im asking a question

    like if i write 'why dont use change the password'

    people know im asking a question because i said'why'

    hope you get a good answer!

  • 2 decades ago

    No, because sometimes, its a rhetorical question....one that does not require an answer.

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  • Eden*
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    I think the ? appears automatically, I wrote a question and the ? appeared on its own

  • 2 decades ago

    why not you just did right?

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    ohhhh ok..

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