Answer a Question with a Question...

[Lavinia]

Does she have a toilet up there?

 

[Patch]

If not, do you really want to go up there????

 

[Lavinia]

Does anyone have a bucket?

 

[Tish]

Can you go up and check, please?

 

[Patch]

If I volunteer to go up there, will you lend me a clothespin for my nose??

 

[tinytn]

What size clothespin do you need Patch ?

 

[Patch]

Do clothespins come in various sizes?

 

[Lavinia]

Did you know we call them clothes pegs, not pins?

 

[Tish]

Can you show them to us, please?

 

[Patch]

Isn't it interesting how colloquialisms can change so many things within the same language?

 

[Lavinia]

Did you know that gypsies used to make and sell clothes pegs?

 

[Kaila]

Did they make all one style, or did they make differently shaped patterns?

 

[Tish]

Does it matter?

 

[tinytn]

Matter if i ask, what's the matter?,

 

[Lavinia]

Is that the same as asking, what's up?

 

[Kaila]

Isn't it funny, the difference between "What's up"
and "What's up with that?"

 

[Patch]

If "What's up?" can be a means of asking someone why they are feeling down, why don't we just ask them "What's down?"

 

[Kaila]

Would What's down, instead seem to mean "What's going down? or What's gone down?

 

[Tish]

Could we please agree with one of them?

 

[Kaila]

Which one would you prefer?

 

[Lavinia]

Is this another case of the meaning of something being changed?

 

[Tish]

I have no idea, do you?

 

[Lavinia]

Do you find you have to adjust your language depending on who you're talking to?

 

[Tish]

No. do you?

 

[Kaila]

Who is asking whom?