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>>The reason I commented on 'whether' is that it is not really a question to me, rather a conjunctive as in ' I wonder whether you can get away with that'
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>Don't know whether you had a chance to exchange messages with people who put a question mark on end of such a sentence. Their reasoning is that the sentence contains a question, so it should have a question mark. Which is silly, IMO, because there is no reason for a question mark on a sentence, unless the sentence IS a question. So, our exchange usually looks like this:
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>I don't know should I stay or should I go?
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If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
-- The Clash
Known in England at the time as "the only band that matters".....
UPDATE: Now this is funny. I just googled that phrase, wondering about its provenance. Try it.
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