Comments on: No, that sentence should not end with a question mark. http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/28/no-that-sentence-should-not-end-with-a-question-mark/ Just blogging about my language geekery. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:57:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Josh http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/28/no-that-sentence-should-not-end-with-a-question-mark/#comment-168 Josh Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:32:12 +0000 http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/28/no-that-sentence-should-not-end-with-a-question-mark/#comment-168 I'm not sure if that's really what that is or not. I've seen such constructions before. Generally, it looks to me like what's happened is, they have a question in mind, e.g.: How was your service today? But when they convert that to a statement, they forget to change the punctuation from that of a question to a statement, thus: We’d like to know how you service was today? Maybe you're right though. Maybe it is a case of high rising terminal. I’m not sure if that’s really what that is or not. I’ve seen such constructions before. Generally, it looks to me like what’s happened is, they have a question in mind, e.g.:

How was your service today?

But when they convert that to a statement, they forget to change the punctuation from that of a question to a statement, thus:

We’d like to know how you service was today?

Maybe you’re right though. Maybe it is a case of high rising terminal.

]]> By: Nils http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/28/no-that-sentence-should-not-end-with-a-question-mark/#comment-167 Nils Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:14:21 +0000 http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/28/no-that-sentence-should-not-end-with-a-question-mark/#comment-167 I think this may be a case of extreme <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal" rel="nofollow">high rising terminal</a> ;-) I think this may be a case of extreme high rising terminal ;-)

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