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Rhetorical Question


Crosswords: Rhetorical Question

English words defined with "rhetorical question": rhetorical. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rhetorical Question

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Screenplays

It was a rhetorical question Errol. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

No, dad, it's a rhetorical question. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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Modern Translations: Rhetorical Question

Language Translations for "rhetorical question"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

риторичен въпрос. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

反問 (askin reply). (various references)

   

German

  

rhetorische frage. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

反語 (antonym, irony, word in reverse), 修辞疑問 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅうじぎもん, はんご (antonym, irony, word in reverse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etoricalrhay estionquay

   

Thai

  

คำถามเชิงสำนวนโวหาร. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rhetorical Question

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Latin500 BCE-Modern

quaestio. (various references)

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Misspellings: Rhetorical Question

Misspellings

"Rhetorical Question" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: retorical question, rhetorical queation. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Rhetorical Question

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-l-n-o-o-q-r-r-s-t-t-u"

-5 letters: acetonitriles, contrarieties, enterocolitis, interlocutors, intersocietal, orchestration, recreationist, reticulations, theoreticians, untheoretical.

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Alternative Orthography: Rhetorical Question


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 68 65 74 6F 72 69 63 61 6C      51 75 65 73 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101000 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#104 &#101 &#116 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#81 &#117 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0068 0065 0074 006F 0072 0069 0063 0061 006C      0051 0075 0065 0073 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5274718681847569677825187718586758180

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