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Old Dec 29, 2011, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge View Post
>> Why beat around the bush? Why not just jump in and get to work?
Has anyone ever noticed that these could be questions? I mean, they have question marks at the end. The person posing these could actually be wanting to know why. They could be asking you to provide some information so that you both could see why something is happening. That's not usually the way it is interpreted, though, and that is usually not what (a real question) is actually happening. Did you ever think about why the words (seeming to be a question) don't match the action (questioning your "value")? Did you (anyone) ever think about it?
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