What are they called? I think they are called rhetorical questions.
Winsor
A typical American who is flummoxed by the subjunctive and understands
no difference between may and might. Maybe.
> Asking and answering his own questions is a particularly American (one
> from the USA) habit in my experience :-). When I was learning to fly a
> lightweight fighter then built by General Dynamics I was often
> embarrassed in briefings because I tended to try to answer the question
> posed by the instructor.
>
> Chris
> On 16 Jul 2004, at 06:08, Jim Brokaw wrote:
>
>>
> snip
>> Well yes, it might be.
>> Should he have had an end-game plan before entering Iraq? Well, any
>> wise
>> warrior would have. Is his habit of asking and answering his own
>> questions
>> very annoying? Well yes, I think it is.
>> --
>>
>> Jim Brokaw
>> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>>
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