How does the Roundup feel about rhetorical questions? Not very. They serve a useful purpose – allowing us to pretend that there is a reason for saying what we are about to say – but they also tempt the listener (or reader!) to provide their own answer. This just will not do. Even if the listener happens to recite the very words of which we are thinking and does so in an appropriately imperious tone (no easy task, peasant!), the answer will still be wrong for one simple reason; we are not saying it. This of course undermines the entire speaker-listener relationship and makez all conversation impossible!
Perhaps you think that this just means we must be careful in how we pose these questions? NO NO NO! YOU’RE NOT LISTENING! So you see? It just isn’t poss…stop it. Just stop it…STOP ANSWERING IN YOUR OWN HEAD!
Qualitative Quantification: way too many
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