"I think that text messaging has made students believe that it's far more acceptable than it actually is to just make screamingly atrocious spelling and grammatical errors,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Right? That would be an entirely different matter, wouldn't it, because you would have absolutely no idea whether the question was rhetorical or grammatical, right?

对吧，那将会是一个完全不同的情况，难道不是吗，因为你就会完全不知道,这个问句是修辞型的还是语法型的，对吧？

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If you stop and think of it as a grammatical question, you say to yourself, "Gee, that's a very good question, isn't it, because, of course, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the dancer from the dance.

如果你停下来，把它当成一个语法型问句，你对自己说，“哈，那是个很好的问题，不是吗“,因为，当然，世界上最简单的事,就是将舞者和舞蹈分开。

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It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt Siroccos- crawl- "That poem and that grammatical structure, it is classically the way people in Ireland speak English."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

It's just a trivial grammatical point about the meaning of the word my.

只是“我的“这个词的琐碎语法点而已。

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He makes a perfectly plausible argument to the effect that the question is grammatical rather than rhetorical.

他提出了一个貌似非常可信的论据,大意是说这个问句是语法型的，而不是修辞型的。

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Notice that the relationship between the rhetorical is and the grammatical is is basically the relationship between what Jakobson calls the "poetic function" and the "metalingual function."

注意下,修辞学上的is和语法中的is之间的关系,基本上就是雅各布森所说的,“诗功能“和“元语言功能“之间的关系“

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B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

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