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  • A riddle about cats

    From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Paul Quinn on Thu Jan 3 16:30:10 2019
    Paul Quinn to Alexander Koryagin:

    Why cats run?
    BTW, can I ask it without "do"?

    No.

    Thinkest thou so?

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Anton Shepelev on Fri Jan 4 07:35:20 2019
    Hi! Anton,

    On 03 Jan 19 16:30, you wrote to me:

    Why cats run?
    BTW, can I ask it without "do"?

    No.

    Thinkest thou so?

    At times, yes.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Ardith Hinton@1:153/716 to Paul Quinn on Thu Jan 24 23:26:06 2019
    Hi, Paul! Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:

    Why cats run?
    BTW, can I ask it without "do"?

    No.

    Thinkest thou so?

    At times, yes.


    Hmm. I suppose one might say:

    Cats run -- why?
    Cats run? Why??


    The simple answer to Alexander's query is "no". That was my initial reaction too. When Anton questioned it, you realized there were exceptions but couldn't think of any examples offhand &/or waited for somebody to ask. Here's my usual slow & wordy response for the advanced students among us, and for Paul (who IMHO knows more about this crazy language than he thinks he does).... :-)




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