# ??????????? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79155 "2001-08-31T17:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/1 "2001-08-31T17:53:51Z")
QUESTION MARK, DAMMIT! Do you know what a question is. Do you understand how to indicate a question to someone else. Have you ever heard of a question mark. Did you ever go to an English class in school. Or are you just stupid. QUESTIONS END IN QUESTION MARKS, DAMMIT!!! ::deep breath:: I feel better now. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/2 "2001-08-31T17:54:53Z")
What are you trying to say. (d&r, _fast_) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/3 "2001-08-31T17:55:13Z")
Jesus, what’s your problem. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/4 "2001-08-31T17:55:54Z")
Question Mark who? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/5 "2001-08-31T17:56:13Z")
this reminds me of my roommate in college who was mad that I was ‘playing euchre too loud’ and came into the living room and said: “I have a question…I’m always quiet when you’re trying to study” and that was all. Still waiting on that question of hers. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/6 "2001-08-31T17:57:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Question Mark who? That would be “…and the Mysterions.” ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/7 "2001-08-31T17:58:03Z")
Are you just trying to increase your post count. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/8 "2001-08-31T17:58:46Z")
Is this rant about someone who doesn’t use question marks as punctuation, or is it about someone who doesn’t know how to phrase things in the form of a question when speaking to you. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/9 "2001-08-31T18:08:53Z")
That’s why I chimed in. Not that I’m mortally offended, but there is the outside chance that the OP was directed at me, or at least that I might be in the group of posters to whom the OP was directed. The thing is – I know all about grammar and spelling and punctuation, but I still fuck it up half the time. – especially ?'s. I don’t know why, but ?'s exist in some sort of ionization blackout space for me. I miss them more often than not.But, fuck it, I’m not writing a term paper here. On the other hand, getting all knicker-twisted because someone pisses on me for it doesn’t solve anything either. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/10 "2001-08-31T18:10:55Z")
I’m often guilty of this in my first draft of whatever I’m writing? But I usually catch this and make corrections upon proofreading? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/11 "2001-08-31T18:20:58Z")
Oooh, just wait until **Vinnie Virginslayer** gets in here. He’ll show you all what a question mark looks like. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/12 "2001-08-31T18:28:54Z")
Heh. Sorry, y’all. It’s just that as I was reading the boards today I kept finding posts with questions without question marks. Once, twice, three times, I overlook it. Fourth time, I start to notice it. Every one after that just annoys me more. Couldn’t tell you who it was in each case but it just started to build on me. It’s a pretty basic form of punctuation, it’s not like a missed comma or something, so you’d think people would realize that the question mark goes there. And as I was writing my OP I kept think of ? and the Mysterios… ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/13 "2001-08-31T18:49:01Z")
AIEEE! It’s “Mysterians.” Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/14 "2001-08-31T18:50:53Z")
Whoops… my bad. Good god, I just said “my bad.” I’m going to have to slap myself. ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/15 "2001-08-31T20:42:53Z")
Oww; cut it out! What are you people trying to do me? It must be something weird about the way I read (and I don’t if it’s this bad for you, **racinchikki** ), but missing question marks or misplaced apostrophes actually hurt me. I’m reading along nicely, and **BAM!** my brain hits one of these potholes and it hurts my head. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/16 "2001-08-31T20:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jmonster \* > **What are you people trying to do me?** You left the comma out of this sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/17 "2001-08-31T20:50:04Z")
And the reverse verbal equivalent - ending statements with that rising interrogative, or whatever the heck it’s called: “Hi, my name is Bambi?” “I like to watch soap operas?” AAAAGGGGHHH! Are you asking me if your name is Bambi? Are you looking for confirmation here? Do I need to check your driver’s license for you? (No offense intended to anybody named Bambi.) ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/18 "2001-08-31T21:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Strainger \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by jmonster \* > > **What are you people trying to do me?** > > You left the comma out of this sentence. \*\* I apologize for any pain that caused. Evidently, I’m not bothered by missing words that also appear elsewhere in the sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/19 "2001-08-31T22:11:14Z")
This one time. At band camp. ---
**Author:** ![WEW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@WEW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WEW)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//79155/20 "2001-08-31T22:47:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > Do you know what a question is. Do you understand how to indicate a question to someone else. Have you ever heard of a question mark. Did you ever go to an English class in school. Or are you just stupid. Should be: Do you know what a question is\*\*?\*\* Do you understand how to indicate a question to someone else\*\*? **. Have you ever heard of a question mark**?\*\* Did you ever go to an English class in school\*\*?[b/] Or are you just stupid\*\*?\*\* I’m sure that was intentional, but I enjoyed it either way. PS Can someone tell me why my coding did not work on this post? Looks right to me, but did not post right. Weird. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79155.md?page=2)