Don't you just hate it when someone.?
.posts a question, they are hoping for an answer they can understand and.
Someone copies 100 lines from a website, posts it here and thinks they'll get 10 points (they don't know enough about the subject to simplify it).
Why do people do that?
Answers:
I had the tendency to do that as answering questions with direct quotes appeared to be more accurate than what I had to offer. Needless to say, it was a sure way of earning easy 10 points.
However, I soon realized that my answers were not answered full heartedly. Rather than horde points for undeserving answers, I took it upon myself to answer only question I was capable of answering thoroughly.
I may not score as many Best Answers as I use to, but I now feel my contributions to answers.yahoo.com are warranted for appreciation.
To either try to look smart, or maybe they're just honestly trying to help, by researching what you're asking about and handing an answer they found to you. I don't know, I always answer from my own mind or heart, whatever the case may call for.
A question is a linguistic expression that will often request information in the form of an answer. Several kinds of questions can be formulated. For example, one may say that a question is the request itself, and an interrogative sentence merely expresses it. Questions can also resemble 'requesting expressions' as well as commands normally being used to elicit a response. Indeed some expressions, such as "Would you pass the butter?", have the grammatical form of questions but function as requests for action, not for answers.
Contents [hide]
1 Varieties of Questions
2 Grammar
3 Questions and answers
4 Learning
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
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Varieties of Questions
Questions have a number of uses. 'Raising a question' may guide the questioner along an avenue of research (see Socratic method). A rhetorical question is asked in order to make a point, and does not expect an answer (often the answer is implied or obvious). Presuppositional questions, such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" may be used as a joke or to embarrass the audience, because any answer a person could give would imply more information than he was willing to affirm. Questions can also be titles of works of art and literature (e.g. Leo Tolstoy's short story How Much Land Does a Man Need? and the movie What About Bob?).
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Grammar
In grammar, most languages distinguish interrogative sentences, which put questions from declarative sentences that state propositions, by syntax. Some devices used by languages for marking questions include:
A different tonal pattern (often a raised tone near the end of the sentence)
A marked word order different from the usual word order in statements (see wh-movement)
An interrogative mood or some other verb inflection such as the subjunctive mood
A grammatical particle (cf Japanese ka, Mandarin Chinese ma)
Combinations of any of the above are possible, as well as alternative patterns for different types of questions. For example, English employs the syntactic approach (word order change) for common questions, but resorts to raising the tone and leaving the word order as it is for focused (emphatic) questions such as "You did what?". Spanish changes the word order only when interrogative pronouns are involved (not in yes-no questions). In Chinese, the word order remains the same for questions as for statements, with the particle added to create a wh-interrogative in situ.
In languages written in the Latin alphabet, a question mark at the end of the sentence identifies questions orthographically. In Spanish, an additional mark is placed at the beginning (e.g. ¿Cómo está usted?).
There are "negative questions," which contain negation in their phrasing, such as "Don't you have a passport?" These have different ways of expressing affirmation and denial from the standard form of question. Various languages have different particles (e.g., French "si"; German "doch") that head their answer. Such are significant points of grammar.
There are three types of sentences in the English language where the predicate can come before the subject. An interrogative sentence is one such one.
Example: Did you pick the car up from the shop?
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Questions and answers
The simplest questions implicitly or explicitly request information from a certain range (finite or infinite) of alternatives. When information purporting to be that requested is presented back to the questioner, the question is said to be answered. The information thus presented is called an answer. Answers may be right or wrong. They are wrong if they present false information. If they present information from outside the profferred alternatives, they may be called wrong or simply inappropriate or irrelevant. This depends on the context, as do several other possibilities: Sometimes "I don't know" is an acceptable answer, sometimes even a right answer. The same is true of "None of the above" and "There is no answer." An answer is the, or a, right answer, if it presents true information which falls within the determined range of alternatives. Questions of this simplest sort usually begin with Who, what, which, where, when, does/do, is/are.
Other questions do not so easily fit this mold. For example, questions beginning "Why" and "How" often request any information at all that will alleviate certain confusion in a person who wants to ask that question. Here the manner in which the information is presented might be more important than which information is presented; the questioner may even already know all of the information contained in the right answer, and merely needs it to be expressed in a more useful form.
Ultimately, the interregotive pronouns (those beginning wh in addition to the word how), derive from the Proto-Indo-European root kwo- or kwi, the former of which was reflected in Proto-Germanic as xwa- or hwa-.[citation needed] The Proto-Indo-European root directly originated the Latin and Romance form qu- in words such as Latin qualis ("which") and quando ("when"). In English, a typographical error in copying by a series of monks is responsible for the transposition of the h and w[citation needed]. Although some varieties of Received Pronunciation and various Scottish dialects still preserve the original sound (i.e. [hw] rather than [w]), the majority only preserve the [w]. The words who, whom, whose, what and why, can all be considered to come from a single Old English word hwā, reflecting its masculine and feminine nominative (hwā), dative(hwām), genitive(hwæs), neuter nominative(hwæt), and instrumental of all genders (hwȳ, later hwī) respectively. Other interrogative words, such as which, how, where, as well as the now archaic whither derive either from compounds (which coming from a compound of hwā[what, who] and lic[like]), or other words from the same root (how deriving from hū).
Buddha: "There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions." Source
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Learning
Questions are used from the most elementary stage of learning to original research. In the scientific method, a question often forms the basis of the investigation and can be considered a transition between the observation and hypothesis stages. Students of all ages use questions in their learning of topics, and the skill of having learners creating "investigatable" questions is a central part of inquiry education. The Socratic method of questioning student responses may be used by a teacher to lead the student towards the truth without direct instruction, and also helps students to form logical conclusions.
A widespread and accepted use of questions in an educational context is the assessment of student's knowledge through exams.
yes, oh my gosh, i was thinking about that today too, I hate that, I'm like, "come on if somebody asked you that in person would you tell them all that bull sh*t, know.b/c you prob. dont have a clue, you're just trying to look smart." yes i hate when people do that.
Because they are morons! Why do people answer questions they don't know about?
I think it's to make the questioner realize that they too can type in a keyword in a searchbar and find the exact same website for their answer.
Believe me if you meet him , kick him in the balls
What MAX said.
because they are not smart enough to be as smart as they need to be to get the actual result they are lookin for.get it? ok
cos they are lazy and cannot think of anything to say for themselves
Simply put to earn the best answer and to appear really intelligent. Or like pirate said they could actually be trying to help.
perhaps they are honestly trying to help the best way they can. Points should be the third reason for answering, the first being to help someone and the benefit of exercising you mind in the thought process. and the second is the opportunity to express your opinion.
I know, I hate it too. But I've actually done that in some questions that never got any answers because apparently no one knew anything about it, so I did the research and posted what I found, you know, just so they have at least one answer. I didn't copy the whole website though.
Lack of the ability to be original.
They are imbecilic,
I agree. Surely people wouldnt post questions if they wanted a googlyfied answer. They'd just go straight to google instead. Or Y! Search or Ask or Excite or Lycos etc
I have wondered if people do that.
I AGREE, I VOTE THUMBS DOWN ON EVERY ONE OVER 3 OE 4 LINES. IT DON'T TAKE ALL THAT CRAP TO SAY SOMETHING.
to get those points you not so bright yourself arnt you? or just fishing for sympathy? like they do? mmm well?
because they are greedy and think that they are being clever and sly when they are doing it but really as u said they just piss everyone off!
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Someone copies 100 lines from a website, posts it here and thinks they'll get 10 points (they don't know enough about the subject to simplify it).
Why do people do that?
Answers:
I had the tendency to do that as answering questions with direct quotes appeared to be more accurate than what I had to offer. Needless to say, it was a sure way of earning easy 10 points.
However, I soon realized that my answers were not answered full heartedly. Rather than horde points for undeserving answers, I took it upon myself to answer only question I was capable of answering thoroughly.
I may not score as many Best Answers as I use to, but I now feel my contributions to answers.yahoo.com are warranted for appreciation.
To either try to look smart, or maybe they're just honestly trying to help, by researching what you're asking about and handing an answer they found to you. I don't know, I always answer from my own mind or heart, whatever the case may call for.
A question is a linguistic expression that will often request information in the form of an answer. Several kinds of questions can be formulated. For example, one may say that a question is the request itself, and an interrogative sentence merely expresses it. Questions can also resemble 'requesting expressions' as well as commands normally being used to elicit a response. Indeed some expressions, such as "Would you pass the butter?", have the grammatical form of questions but function as requests for action, not for answers.
Contents [hide]
1 Varieties of Questions
2 Grammar
3 Questions and answers
4 Learning
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
[edit]
Varieties of Questions
Questions have a number of uses. 'Raising a question' may guide the questioner along an avenue of research (see Socratic method). A rhetorical question is asked in order to make a point, and does not expect an answer (often the answer is implied or obvious). Presuppositional questions, such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" may be used as a joke or to embarrass the audience, because any answer a person could give would imply more information than he was willing to affirm. Questions can also be titles of works of art and literature (e.g. Leo Tolstoy's short story How Much Land Does a Man Need? and the movie What About Bob?).
[edit]
Grammar
In grammar, most languages distinguish interrogative sentences, which put questions from declarative sentences that state propositions, by syntax. Some devices used by languages for marking questions include:
A different tonal pattern (often a raised tone near the end of the sentence)
A marked word order different from the usual word order in statements (see wh-movement)
An interrogative mood or some other verb inflection such as the subjunctive mood
A grammatical particle (cf Japanese ka, Mandarin Chinese ma)
Combinations of any of the above are possible, as well as alternative patterns for different types of questions. For example, English employs the syntactic approach (word order change) for common questions, but resorts to raising the tone and leaving the word order as it is for focused (emphatic) questions such as "You did what?". Spanish changes the word order only when interrogative pronouns are involved (not in yes-no questions). In Chinese, the word order remains the same for questions as for statements, with the particle added to create a wh-interrogative in situ.
In languages written in the Latin alphabet, a question mark at the end of the sentence identifies questions orthographically. In Spanish, an additional mark is placed at the beginning (e.g. ¿Cómo está usted?).
There are "negative questions," which contain negation in their phrasing, such as "Don't you have a passport?" These have different ways of expressing affirmation and denial from the standard form of question. Various languages have different particles (e.g., French "si"; German "doch") that head their answer. Such are significant points of grammar.
There are three types of sentences in the English language where the predicate can come before the subject. An interrogative sentence is one such one.
Example: Did you pick the car up from the shop?
[edit]
Questions and answers
The simplest questions implicitly or explicitly request information from a certain range (finite or infinite) of alternatives. When information purporting to be that requested is presented back to the questioner, the question is said to be answered. The information thus presented is called an answer. Answers may be right or wrong. They are wrong if they present false information. If they present information from outside the profferred alternatives, they may be called wrong or simply inappropriate or irrelevant. This depends on the context, as do several other possibilities: Sometimes "I don't know" is an acceptable answer, sometimes even a right answer. The same is true of "None of the above" and "There is no answer." An answer is the, or a, right answer, if it presents true information which falls within the determined range of alternatives. Questions of this simplest sort usually begin with Who, what, which, where, when, does/do, is/are.
Other questions do not so easily fit this mold. For example, questions beginning "Why" and "How" often request any information at all that will alleviate certain confusion in a person who wants to ask that question. Here the manner in which the information is presented might be more important than which information is presented; the questioner may even already know all of the information contained in the right answer, and merely needs it to be expressed in a more useful form.
Ultimately, the interregotive pronouns (those beginning wh in addition to the word how), derive from the Proto-Indo-European root kwo- or kwi, the former of which was reflected in Proto-Germanic as xwa- or hwa-.[citation needed] The Proto-Indo-European root directly originated the Latin and Romance form qu- in words such as Latin qualis ("which") and quando ("when"). In English, a typographical error in copying by a series of monks is responsible for the transposition of the h and w[citation needed]. Although some varieties of Received Pronunciation and various Scottish dialects still preserve the original sound (i.e. [hw] rather than [w]), the majority only preserve the [w]. The words who, whom, whose, what and why, can all be considered to come from a single Old English word hwā, reflecting its masculine and feminine nominative (hwā), dative(hwām), genitive(hwæs), neuter nominative(hwæt), and instrumental of all genders (hwȳ, later hwī) respectively. Other interrogative words, such as which, how, where, as well as the now archaic whither derive either from compounds (which coming from a compound of hwā[what, who] and lic[like]), or other words from the same root (how deriving from hū).
Buddha: "There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions." Source
[edit]
Learning
Questions are used from the most elementary stage of learning to original research. In the scientific method, a question often forms the basis of the investigation and can be considered a transition between the observation and hypothesis stages. Students of all ages use questions in their learning of topics, and the skill of having learners creating "investigatable" questions is a central part of inquiry education. The Socratic method of questioning student responses may be used by a teacher to lead the student towards the truth without direct instruction, and also helps students to form logical conclusions.
A widespread and accepted use of questions in an educational context is the assessment of student's knowledge through exams.
yes, oh my gosh, i was thinking about that today too, I hate that, I'm like, "come on if somebody asked you that in person would you tell them all that bull sh*t, know.b/c you prob. dont have a clue, you're just trying to look smart." yes i hate when people do that.
Because they are morons! Why do people answer questions they don't know about?
I think it's to make the questioner realize that they too can type in a keyword in a searchbar and find the exact same website for their answer.
Believe me if you meet him , kick him in the balls
What MAX said.
because they are not smart enough to be as smart as they need to be to get the actual result they are lookin for.get it? ok
cos they are lazy and cannot think of anything to say for themselves
Simply put to earn the best answer and to appear really intelligent. Or like pirate said they could actually be trying to help.
perhaps they are honestly trying to help the best way they can. Points should be the third reason for answering, the first being to help someone and the benefit of exercising you mind in the thought process. and the second is the opportunity to express your opinion.
I know, I hate it too. But I've actually done that in some questions that never got any answers because apparently no one knew anything about it, so I did the research and posted what I found, you know, just so they have at least one answer. I didn't copy the whole website though.
Lack of the ability to be original.
They are imbecilic,
I agree. Surely people wouldnt post questions if they wanted a googlyfied answer. They'd just go straight to google instead. Or Y! Search or Ask or Excite or Lycos etc
I have wondered if people do that.
I AGREE, I VOTE THUMBS DOWN ON EVERY ONE OVER 3 OE 4 LINES. IT DON'T TAKE ALL THAT CRAP TO SAY SOMETHING.
to get those points you not so bright yourself arnt you? or just fishing for sympathy? like they do? mmm well?
because they are greedy and think that they are being clever and sly when they are doing it but really as u said they just piss everyone off!
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