A child asked me whether the queen would use shortened "coloquial" terms, such as don't, won't and we've when talking to her family, i wasn't sure of how to answer this question.
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Yes she uses such words in her annual addresses to the Commonwealth.
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You ask an oblique question:  What is your favorite place (to travel, or to have lived).  Then, probe. What did you like about it there?  Build on that.  Open ended questions.  If you get to an area where she is uncomfortable, she'll signal by switching to one word answers.  Yes.  No.  I don't know  (ok, that's three words).
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sounds like a question someone would ask their mother.  hence the "ma"  just kidding
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I think it would be rude if you are with adults.  I know your wife means well but I guess it depends on how your wife does it.  I teach students that speak English as a Second Language.  A strategy that we are taught is to not come out and say, that's not how you say it.  What we are supposed to do, since they make many grammar mistakes is to repeat what they have said in the correct way.  For example, if a student says I runned to school this morning, I am supposed to repeat with something like: Oh really, you RAN all the way here? Who ran with you?\nThe kids don't feel bad when they've made the mistake.
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I just guessing here, but I'm betting he/she don't have a clue of what you are saying. I'd go get a counselor to help out.
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LOL, think you did the right thing there.  The child really needs to talk to his parents about it.\n\nI've been asked before by a niece, and I told her that she needed to talk to her mom.  I said "Well, I don't know, I have never had a baby, but your mom had you...why don't you ask her?".
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Although she is right in her statement, she might not be making that statement for the same reason you or I would. I think it's her way of saying, "This is a very difficult question to answer publicly without upsetting someone. So please stop asking me or my husband to answer that question."
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Question is not cohesive and not properly formed in a natural response format.
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its not the queens speach,its blairs speach the queens mouth, \nI would love to hear a speach that came from her own mind without fear.
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Just say "Sure, I don't mind you doing ___."  This way he/she knows what you are talking about.  My husband get so many people confused with responding just "Yes." or "No."  This is why I always make it clear.  I think it's very nice for there not to be that confusion so no one is thinking at the end of the day "Is that really what s/he mean or was I wrong?"  I don't know about you but sometimes I worry about silly things like that.
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Is he/she won't take one maybe he/she just doesn't want to know in which case I would NOT take the risk by sleeping with him/her OR it could be that when you asked they got VERY insulted by you for suggesting that they need to have one, in which case I would NOT take the risk by sleeping with them without the results of a negative test!
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me: let me think...\nme: yes you do\nme: but I don't answer back\nme: you just did\nme: get back into your cage\n\nAnyways to answer your question I'd have to say no
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4 i don't know.\n\n\ni have a LOT of trouble with hypothetical questions.
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Retorical Question  \n\nA question not intended to be answered.
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Could you repeat the question differently? I'm not sure I understand what you mean?
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I remember when I got in trouble for answering a question CORRECTLY.  I think the teacher felt threatened because I had a better understanding of English (the subject, not the language) than she did.  My parents are both former English teachers, what can I say?  She was talking about something and said "I can't remember what it's called when you can spell a word the same forward and backward."  I answered that is was a "palindrome."  She said, "Oh, I remember now.  It's a homophone!"  I answered, very respectfully, that a homophone is something that sounds the same.  (homo=same, phone=sound)  She snarled at me and told me to go look it up.  I was right, and ever since that day, she tried to make everything harder on me, or would make sarcastic comments like "What do YOU think, smarty-pants?"  Still made an "A", and thank God I only had her one year.
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This is not fair to anyone involved, you may have to give in(even though it is wrong). They probably won't for awhile. So try your hardest to bite your tongue and murmur through it May I hold my gradnchild? They will eventually change. Just be patient, and when she gets to be a toddler, they may be asking for you to actually babysit.