"What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"

[victor steinbok]

Are you inserting the first question mark prosodically? I would expect a
single sentence in both cases... What's==is+[qualifier]

VS-)

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Reminiscent of questions like
>
> "What's he gonna pay? Two men to do the same job?"
>
> --
> -Wilson

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