Now, seriously, What does a 'good question' mean? Doesn't it indirectly imply that the other questions were bad or were just ok. Do the questioner then have to fight an inner battle to decide if the question is good before burping it out. We all have been told that there are no stupid questions but isnt the 'good question' comment another way of saying that your previous questions were not stupid but can be classified , at the very best, as mediocre.
Is this an American thing or cross-cultural? Is it done in Asia? Europe? If it is, I must've been a master at asking mediocre questions and surrounded by mediocre people since I never heard it while in India.
To me its as annoying as the quote unquote thing done by people using their fingers while speaking since I now have to figure out where the quotes start and end.
On a different note:
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4 comments:
Now that's the million dollar question! Is it just an American thing? :D
Thats a good post. True, the 'quote-unquote' thing people do with their fingers are annoying. The 'good question' strategy helps you buy time, or brings a break to a boring conversation. For that alone it is not a bad thing. The idea is to say 'good question' and then look into the horizon to give the impression you are thinking about this great question.
Other day I embarassed myself by doing quote-unqoute with fingers on the wrong word in the sentence.
Bangalore is like the silicon-valley of "India".
Customer looked a little confused trying to smell a pun.
Takes us to the bigger question, is there good and bad in this world. If there is, then there are good questions and bad questions.
BTW... regret to say that most of ur questions are bad questions.
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