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Anybody notice a trend of statements with question marks?

I started a Kindle book today, and I am finding this very annoying. About half of the dialog does that. From context, they are not questions.
 
I'm not used to seeing this in text but it's a very common usage in speech.

A statement ending with a question mark might also indicate impatience, sarcasm from the person writing the statement.
Condescension is the word that comes to my mind.
 
I'm not used to seeing this in text but it's a very common usage in speech.


Condescension is the word that comes to my mind.
In Australian speech it is so ubiquitous that it was parodied in a trope on “Kath and Kim”. The only condescension was on the part of viewers.
 
I think it's to add dramatic effect?

It does seem kind of snarky when it's out of context, now that I just did it :D. I also might be wrong or misinformed, but Reddit does feel like an awful lot of bot / echo-chamber activity, lately. Everyone kind of writes and reacts in the same fashion, which leads me to believe that the hive mind has formed a singularity / archetype of "the perfect Reddit user" who... I guess collects fake karma points all day or something? I'm not sure what the goal is.

In either case, Reddit seems less genuine by the day, just like a lot of mainstream social media platforms. So whatever new things they all start doing at the same time like this (putting a little more snark in their tone, sounding more like entitled teenagers, etc), it just pushes people who want genuine conversation even further away.

That's why I come here, instead of all the other places to talk about what matters :)
 
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I hate when you post something that annoys you, for example people blasting their car horn as they go by, and someone replies with a load of possible reasons they could be doing it, with a question mark next to each reason. It has a sort of snarky undertone to it, like you feel you've said something wrong and they're stating the obvious.
 
I may have made up my own rules for this issue. I tend to add an exclamation mark after question mark to indicate rhetoric. As mentioned in the previous link by @Judge :

Could there be a more enchanting moment than this?!
 
I may have made up my own rules for this issue. I tend to add an exclamation mark after question mark to indicate rhetoric. As mentioned in the previous link by @Judge :

Could there be a more enchanting moment than this?!
I know I have had times when faced with such a question, and quickly resolved it, whether it was right or not given the context. Same with exclamation marks as well. My bad? :p
 
Posing more questions than answers are a Conspiracy Theorist's stock-in-trade. The goal is to place so much fear, uncertainty, and doubt (e.g., FUD) in your mind that you end up trusting no one but the Conspiracy Theorists. Then they can tell you anything they want you to believe.

And you will believe it.
 
I think i use that sometimes to make a statement and try to engage the other person with it too. like not forcing my statement instead asking the other person too. I don't think is something wrong.
 
In online forums, and social media, I sometimes apply question marks to statemnts in-order to encourage responses.
 
I get more than enough responses by stating facts that fringe-thinkers refuse to believe.

• The Earth is round -- not perfectly so, but it is certainly is NOT flat.
• Humans evolved from a more primitive ape-like animal.
• The universe has no center.
• Retrograde time-travel is impossible.
• Faster-than-light travel is impossible.
• Receiving a vaccine will keep you healthier than not receiving a vaccine.
• There is no such thing as "Jewish Space Lasers".
• Base metals cannot be transmuted to gold through purely chemical means.
• Microwave ovens do not make food radioactive.
• Solar panels do not cool the Sun or cause Global Warming.
• Windmills do not cause cancer.
• Ivermectin does not cure cancer or COVID-19.
• The 2019 USA presidential election was NOT stolen.

. . . et cetera . . . et cetera . . .
 
Sometimes, people who use question marks do so because they want to convey uncertainty. For example:

"I don't know that, do I?"

Or:

"He doesn't seem like my type?"

Or:

"It is a good thing, though?"
 

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