It says if you can read the sign, you’re in range. It’s an anomaly, after all.

Why not?

The first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.

The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.

Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.

I’m totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.

What’s your NAme

How OLD (are you)?

Where are you FROm?

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read

I guess Reading is not his strong suit

A new browser touches the beacon

For some reason the first time I read it, I thought it was an “L” so now I always call them “Apple mages”

Unbelievably AWESOME

Honestly, same. I want to play it so bad, but never liked turn based stuff

Always wanted to learn, and I have a deck!

I learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

Thank you! I was always morally opposed to ads. Glad to have another great reason to shun them

Exactly. I hate when things say FREE!* (*With Ads), because you ARE paying for it. With your PRECIOUS TIME

I feel like the old guys in my area just talk about their health problems 😂

Something to look forward to, I suppose

So true

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it’s all in their head

Can we call such police “Starmtroopers”?