I wasn't asking you. But thanks for the unsolicited feedback.
It's a forum.
And I can choose to ask someone specific in a forum if I choose to. And they have the right to butt in with unsolicited feedback. Any more amazing observations for us?
You don't have some right to privacy in a public forum.
Information is information regardless of who tells you it - if your question is genuine then you would welcome any information regardless of where it came from. But your question wasn't genuine, it was rhetorical. Really you're making a claim and framing it rhetorically, and he's dispensing with your claim. Framing your claims as questions doesn't give you some right to make claims unchallenged in a public context.
Keep trying
second, my question was indeed genuine and not 'rhetorical' (which you should probably look up in a dictionary if you want to use the word correctly.) I was asking the specific person that I addressed.
a rhetorical question is:
a question asked in order to make a statement, that does not expect an answer
Here you ask a question then make a statement which is contrary to what would be the questions answer:
Why do you play KID against the English? It was designed for D4, not C4.
If your question were not rhetorical its answer would undermine your following claim which suggests the KID ought not to be played vs C4. Since we assume you believe your claim we can therefor infer you were asking a rhetorical question, a question to which there is no valid answer and so we do not expect an answer.
Your question is either rhetorical or your whole statement is self-contradictory as you undermine your own claim.
So no, there is not some mystery dictionary definition that will save you here or that is even relevant, try again.
I wasn't asking you. But thanks for the unsolicited feedback.
It's a forum.
And I can choose to ask someone specific in a forum if I choose to. And they have the right to butt in with unsolicited feedback. Any more amazing observations for us?
You don't have some right to privacy in a public forum.
Information is information regardless of who tells you it - if your question is genuine then you would welcome any information regardless of where it came from. But your question wasn't genuine, it was rhetorical. Really you're making a claim and framing it rhetorically, and he's dispensing with your claim. Framing your claims as questions doesn't give you some right to make claims unchallenged in a public context.
Keep trying