One of my favorite Simpsons lines, the load hearing poster

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?

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

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

I guess Reading is not his strong suit

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

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

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!

A new browser touches the beacon

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

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

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

Something to look forward to, I suppose

Can we call such police “Starmtroopers”?

Ok, besides the sewers, what have the Bulgarians ever done for us?!

It’s gotta be 1.5C hotter on average for a decade, not just a year

Figma balls

We do what we want, because we can

Pretty sure it’s matte in the US, too