On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 20:16:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

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>"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
>>>
>>>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.

Look up "tacit"...
.... expressed or understood without being directly stated