It’s this loss(less compression)

It says if you can read the sign, you’re in range. It’s an anomaly, after all.

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?

Could you give some 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

Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read

I thought the seahorse was talking about the microphone

A new browser touches the beacon

Unbelievably AWESOME

It seems like they’re making fun of people that are overly affectionate in a public place, like on a train

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

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

Never heard of that! Thanks for the tip. Gonna try it

Morrowind is one of my favorites of all time. I was into nag champa incense at the time, and so that smell will always remind me of Morrowind. Singing about the ambiance of Morrowind was kinda incense-y anyway, so it was the perfect combo

Thank you! I was always morally opposed to ads. Glad to have another great reason to shun them

Exactly. I hate when things say FREE!* (*With Ads), because you ARE paying for it. With your PRECIOUS TIME

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

Something to look forward to, I suppose

So true

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it’s all in their head