[WAYYY OT] Begs the question

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/22/2011 10:36 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> I was actually surprised to find out that 
> in some languages the statement and the question have exactly the same form, 
> the only difference being the question mark vs. period at the end of the 
> sentence.

You may also be interested to know that there is at least one language
which need not use a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence to denote
that it is either a question or a statement.

The simple addition of a character changes it as well as the object....

元気です   = I am fine

元気ですか  = How are you



-- 
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such things as a free
variable." 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段

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