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Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?
  • 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.

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    Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?
  • 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?

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    Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?
  • I guess in this example, "who is your daddy?" Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise

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    Kia completes building EV-only plant
  • Kia? They're still around? Thought that went under. I have seen a lot of cars from this other company. What was it? KИ?

    Always thought they made air filters, or something.

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    I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers
  • Good luck getting consistent cuts while you're freehanding. The idea is to make the nice flat cat scratching pad, and also being able to make the tool with the tool printer you have at home

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    Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications
  • Yeah. I think the bottom line is that if you're still using Google Maps instead of Android Auto, you're bad and should feel bad. Personally, I hate every car newer than mine because of similar practices in what seems like the entire auto industry

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    Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications
  • I feel that. I got a Garmin watch that thankfully has a generic media control. Going the way things are going, maybe its days are numbered and it'll be removed without warning, despite not being Google

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    Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications
  • On the maps app, they recently removed the little media player controls that showed up at the bottom when something, anything, was playing. Just removed it for seemingly no reason.

    It was the only maps app that would do that. Waze has to install an applet for each media player app you want to control, and guess what, unless it's Spotify and a handful of other popular apps, you're out of luck. No generic media control interface. It's so backwards! Just take whatever's playing and give me forward, back, and pause!

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