Timeline for "Why shouldn't they do something"? | Does this sentence mean "They should do something?" OR "They shouldn't."
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| Jan 12 at 22:07 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12 at 21:56 | comment | added | James K | Asking the rhetorical question "Why should they have a choice?" implies that you think that there are no reasons for them to have a choice, and so they shouldn't have a choice. That, it is the opposite to "why shouldn't they have a choice?", as expected. | |
| Jan 12 at 21:48 | comment | added | Yunus | Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I understand that "Why shouldn't they have a choice" is actually supporting the idea that they should have a choice. And now if we ask the same question in an affirmative way: "Why SHOULD they have a choice?", then this is INTERESTINGLY also supporting the idea that they should have a choice. So, both forms, ("Why SHOULDN'T they have a choice" and "Why SHOULD they have a choice") end up in the same meaning. Do you think so? | |
| Jan 12 at 21:36 | vote | accept | Yunus | ||
| Jan 12 at 20:29 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |