Punctuating a question with a period C/D????

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Whatever, you know, no big deal... just throwing the question out there. wouldn't surprise me if nobody answers, but who cares, i don't.

― Aaron A., Friday, 27 September 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i do this. i dont know why. i used to be a perfectionist where grammar and punctuation are concerned yet now i just do what feels right at the time.
so i would have to say classic.

― donna (donna), Friday, 27 September 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Does ending questions with periods really "feel right" to you, Donna.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 September 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

yep

― donna (donna), Friday, 27 September 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Dud, for me: it always seems as if the sentence falls flat at the end, in a very anticlimactic way.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it when other people do this in rhetorical questions. It's not for everyone.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 27 September 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree that it works best with rhetorical questions. But I have found that it's almost always used by males, presumably in order to avoid looking too eager or something. In which case, dud.

― Aaron A., Friday, 27 September 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

will you marry me aaron

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

why do you ask.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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