Answering a question with a question

Today’s Dilbert, with Dilbert and the pointy-headed boss: Well, responding to a yes-no question with a question could just be a request for information — that would be taking the boss’s question “at face value” — but quite often the second question (conversationally) implicates that the answer to the first question is “yes” (why, the … Continue reading Answering a question with a question