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[bellatramonto]

College is my ticket out of here, and I'm looking at ones in America. Any suggestions? It's got to have a huge sports following so that Charlie will be inclined to visit me once in awhile.

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[premuroso]

Anywhere with a safety net the size of the state.

[bellatramonto]

Because you know so much about schools.

[premuroso]

There's this thing. It's called reading. You begin to learn things eventually.

[bellatramonto]

Right, but what do you know about colleges... or school in general.

[premuroso]

Well most people attend to study and learn and occasionally plan to make something of themselves after they graduate. Or that's the theory.

[bellatramonto]

Glad you agree. They go to make something of themselves.

[premuroso]

Agree? I don't think you've said anything worth agreeing with.

[bellatramonto]

You can't agree or disagree with the agreement, especially when you sparked it.

[premuroso]

I haven't agreed or disagreed with anything, because saying I have implies that I've stated an opinion. And as you asked me a question based on fact and common knowledge and I answered based on fact and common knowledge, there was really no opinion issued at all.

[bellatramonto]

I didn't even ask you a question. It was a statement, hence the period at the end.

Don't you have anything better to do right now than piss me off? <---that was a question.

[premuroso]

The period does not negate the fact that it started with the word what, which, being an interrogative word, immediately implies that a question is being asked, regardless of the incorrect punctuation mark at the end.

And not really, no.

[bellatramonto]

There was no incorrect punctuation.

Enthralling hobby you have.

[premuroso]

A question requires a question mark. The lack of a question mark indicates incorrect punctuation.

It passes the time.

[bellatramonto]

It was a statement. Read a book sometime, you'll find many statements read like questions because they were said to no one in particular-- thin air, perhaps.

So it makes you feel good to bring others down.

(prime example of a statement read like a question. depending on the context, you may not be able to answer . . . say if I were in a field, posing this question to a tree.)

[premuroso]

The problem with that is that you weren't saying it to no one. You were saying it to myself. So unlike statements such as what an idiot or what a load of crap, which could be considered statements, saying something like what do you know about college or schools in general is clearly addressing another and thereby making it a question.

But then again? What do I know? I didn't go to school. And apparently that makes you unworthy of offering your opinion. Unless you're Jasper, of course.

[bellatramonto]

How do you know I was saying it to you? I was just blowing off steam . . .

Now you're just assuming. Jasper didn't lend his opinion to me, as he's probably not familiar with schools in America. That was what this initial post was about, need I remind you.