query abt rhetorical questions [off topic]

[David Bergdahl]

Would you consider a rhetorical question as a discourse-opener to reflect an
oral or a written style?  Specifically, if someone writes

Should a language be restructured in order to make it easier to learn? I
don't know if that is such a good idea--it reminds me, more than anything
else, of the Newspeak of George Orwell's 1984, where grammar was simplified,
an affix-based English was used, and words (and, according to the logic of
the book, concepts) like 'freedom" didn't exist....

is s/he trying to sound like speech or like print?
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