Does Anything Wasp?

Answer 1

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants do.

Answer 2

One way of dealing with problematical questions is to turn them round into the statement form and test to see if the statement is true or false.

Turning this question into a statement: 'Anything does wasp.' or (assuming the word 'wasp' is being used as a verb in this context) 'Anything wasps'.

If the statement 'anything wasps' is true, then 'something wasps' must be true.

Looking for a possible usage for the word 'wasp' finds this definition:

"WASP - wireless application service provider is part of a growing industry sector resulting from the convergence of two trends: wireless communications and the outsourcing of services. A WASP performs the same service for wireless clients as a regular application service provider (ASP) does for wired clients: it provides Web-based access to applications and services that would otherwise have to be stored locally. The main difference with WASP is that it enables customers to access the service from a variety of wireless devices, such as the smartphone and the personal digital assistant (PDA)."

So 'to wasp' might refer to the act of providing a Wireless Access Service.

If this were true, then the answer to your question is:

Yes.

However, I note that the question is posed under Biology rather than Semantics or Electronics.

Living things, by definition, live and die so, in a sense, they can be said to be or not to be. Those things which are not in the present, may have existed in the past or they may not have done - the question posed (To be or not to be) is not specific about this.

Let P stand for a posited state of affairs, then the question may be asked 'Was P or was P not?'

Clearly, the question you ask is grammatically incorrect, since the auxilliary verb 'to do' is never used with the verb to be, except in regional dialect, and even there, 'does was' is not a correct grammatical combination.

Since we have allowed that P should stand for any posited state of affairs, then the question grammatically corrected as 'Was anything P?' is unlikely to be answered in the negative since there must be something that was P (as we have not defined the extent of our posited states of affairs.)

Answer 3

Maybe a wasp wasps.

Answer 4

What would you rather bee or a wasp?

Answer 5

What about a bee.

Answer 6

YEAH.........ditto Owlwings; the clever clogs. ;o)

Answer 7

don't know

Answer 8

???????