(Personally, it makes me feel "stupid".)
2007-07-13 14:02:19 · 36 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear "wolfeb" - lol
2007-07-13 14:05:43 · update #1
lol - I should have seen that coming.
2007-07-13 14:06:52 · update #2
Dear "angel" - that's the same with my wife. I will say would you like to dance? She replies Dance?
2007-07-13 14:08:53 · update #3
lol - I didn't mean this to illicit humor, I was serious. -- you rascals.
2007-07-13 14:10:06 · update #4
WELL YA, especially if you can't answer their question...!
DID that happen to you uncle?
I can Tell Darth for you...and HE will
intimidate them for YOU.
2007-07-13 14:07:11 · answer #1 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well? This one time? At band camp? We had this girl? Who never made a statement? In her entire life? I mean? You know? It was like? Everything was a question with her?
Take it in stride, 'Nuncle. Anything you face has a possible worse aspect than what you are actually dealing with.
Seriously, though, I think many of the people who answer with questions do so because they feel, like I do, that Y/A should more more like a chat room and less like a message board.
Right now, it's a little of both and not a lot of either.
Don't you think?
2007-07-13 15:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by Grey Raven 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kal, the college teacher, has it right. Questions are the most effective way to teach because it makes the other person think. This is something rare in today's world. Personally thinking! Too often we rely on what someone tells us to think. Advertising has done a great job. Politicians and the clergy make a good living off of it.
They tell you losing several billion American dollars in cash in a foreign country is not a problem. They tell you after stealing millions of dollars they wasted on themselves, that it is perfectly alright for a corporation to move its headquarters to another country to avoid paying taxes of the money it got here. Just concentrate on the real issues, what is Lindsey Lohan doing now?
2007-07-13 14:58:17 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but also be aware that this is the way Socrates engaged his contemporaries and they way he defended himself at his trial. Plato's script of "The Apology (Apologia) of Socrates" is a critical to modern philosophy and is considered amongst the first major apologetics.
Socratic inquiry, the recursive process of answering questions with a question until the two parties can refine the dialog down to an answer unknown but satisfactory to both parties, is a very popular and effective pedagogical tools.
So (often but not always) when someone replies to your question with a question, you are engaging in a ancient and time-tested method named for one of the most brilliant thinkers of the Classical world.
Does that make you feel smarter?
2007-07-13 15:03:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has an opinion and when you ask a question that you should know the answer to, or the answer is inside you because it is your life, the best response is to ask you the question back, we can't look to others for all of our answers, so when I ask a question and get a question back, it just reminds me that I already have the answer, and that I was just looking for confirmation. It can be frustrating, but then again, any time you ask a question, you need to always keep it in mind that you should consider the source you asking.
2007-07-13 14:08:45 · answer #5 · answered by carpathian mage 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that there are times that it is appropriate to answer a question with a question- if it continues the conversation- I don't think it is appropriate when the person answering wants to deceive and put the blame back on the person asking legitimate question.
Please do not feel "stupid"-
2007-07-13 14:11:19 · answer #6 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah,I can understand what you are saying,Wayne..In a way,it's an example of disrespect,to the questioner. The only way that it would acceptable is if done in a spirit of humor,as some have already done on this question(stole my thunder,they did)
...or if it was an obvious rehtorical question,that was an obvious attempt to promote deeper thought...otherwise,it is kind of a slap in the face...I agree..
2007-07-13 14:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
you shouldn't feel stupid, it makes them look stupid. Most of the time when someone asks you a question as an answer to a question it means they don't have an answer. They just want to get their point, or agenda across to you; they don't want to engage in any sort of dialog.
2007-07-13 14:06:39 · answer #8 · answered by peter_pumkin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who it is and how they do it. The Socratic method of teaching (guiding students to discover the answer through their own logic by asking them questions to point them in the right direction) is quite effective in some situations.
2007-07-13 14:06:54 · answer #9 · answered by UNITool 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What was the question?
Nah, seriously now, I don't mind that so much, what I react to is when I come up with a great question and someone fires off the come back, 'and your point is what?'
2007-07-13 16:22:59 · answer #10 · answered by Valerie C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I teach college and I LOVE it when someone asks me a question in response to a question...unless they are asking it to avoid my question! I'm not a big fan of it on Yahoo! Answers because the system doesn't lend itself to effective replies...if this was a discussion board, I'd love to have people ask questions about my questions and my answers...but in this format, I'd prefer it if they posted their own question!
2007-07-13 14:06:29 · answer #11 · answered by KAL 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋