"Janet B" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 23:54:00 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Janet B" > wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:26:36 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>>>Why were you trying to help me here? I didn't ask for help.
>>>>>
>>>>> And yet it seems everyone interpreted it that way, like so many times
>>>>> before. So they're all wrong, are they? Read what you wrote again.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> snip
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>>> The question is implied. It's a statement that leads the listener to
>>> believe that an answer should be given. ( This is an unfortunate
>>> habit of speech that you have.) You may not think you are asking for
>>> help, but you are. You need to change the way you express yourself.
>>> You said " I wish there was a sweetener I could use. So far I
>>> haven't found
>>> one. " The implied question is, does anyone know of a sweetener that
>>> I could use. Watch your sentence construction and you won't be
>>> bothered by unwanted help.
>>> Janet US
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>>I have never heard such a thing! I have never heard of an implied
>>question!
>>Thankfully the people in my real life don't go around trying to solve
>>things
>>for me or telling me what to do. And if you think I will change the way I
>>do things just because someone here tells me so, you are dead wrong! I am
>>just very thankful that the real world is not populated with people like
>>you!
>>
>>How in the world could you have deduced that from what I said? You just
>>read waaaaay too much into it. I gave you no parameters whatever as to
>>what
>>I could and could not have so how would anyone know? Sheesh! And I'm
>>pretty sure that you know that I shop at Amazon so if there was something
>>available in a reasonable quantity and for a reasonable price I would get
>>it
>>from them!
>
> Look it up. "Implied Questions"
> Janet US

I just did and I saw nothing that would apply here. Have you got a link?
See? I do know how to ask a question.