You merely adopted the bathroom! I was born in it, moulded by it!

I, too, want to know what that strap is called… For a friend

It says if you can read the sign, you’re in range. It’s an anomaly, after all.

Why not?

The first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.

The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.

Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.

I’m totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.

What’s your NAme

How OLD (are you)?

Where are you FROm?

I guess in this example, “who is your daddy?” Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

For some reason the first time I read it, I thought it was an “L” so now I always call them “Apple mages”

Honestly, same. I want to play it so bad, but never liked turn based stuff

Always wanted to learn, and I have a deck!

I learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

There were pip boys in fallout 1, no? That was '97

Edit: I just engaged my imagination and realized you might mean the precursor in our timeline

I feel like the old guys in my area just talk about their health problems 😂

Something to look forward to, I suppose

Can we call such police “Starmtroopers”?

Snow crash?

Swing states are often referred to as “purple” because they don’t consistently vote for just “red” or “blue”

He’s following you, about 30 feet back…

Is it so surprising that someone might feel that way?