What Letter Should Replace the Question Mark?

That's right. No progression. No linguistics. Just the missing stick letter among all stick letters. Everything else--like the 3-4-3-4...thing--is extraneous...pure coincidence.

My second answer is N.

A = Three strokes/sticks to produce A (3 lines)

E = Four strokes/sticks to produce E (4 lines)

F = Three strokes/sticks lines to produce F (3 lines)

M = Four strokes/sticks lines to produce M (4 lines)

? = N = Three strokes/sticks lines to produce ? (3 lines)

W = Four strokes/sticks lines to produce W (4 lines)

Y = Three strokes/sticks lines to produce Y (3 lines)

It is iteresting to observe that original thread and posts 1 and 12 are probably written by the same person. (Original thread and post 1 are obviously written by same person) Also, probably same person is giving GA to his own posts.

What is even more interesting, is how your powers of observation have escaped you; which is to say: you're off by a country kilometer.

What is readily apparent to a more discerning eye, is that #12 observed that #1 got the answer but, lacking confidence in his own perceptiveness (or overly humble to a fault), then went on, feebly, to throw in more than was needed: a second solution (and, moreover, a beg-the-question-but-nevertheless-incorrect guess, at that). So, sensing an impending injustice, #12 evidently took it upon himself to edit #1's post so as to (1) make it more readily understood and to the point; (2) to remove extraneous, and also distracting, verbiage; (3) to bring to it the visibility it rightly deserved; and (4) to do all that without seeming to claim credit properly owed to #1.

In furtherance of aforesaid (4), #12's election to post anonymously can now be understood. But, there seems to be more...more that directly addresses, and refutes, your insidious suggestion as to GA self promotion.... What is more reasonably perceived is that #12, in wanting to GA praise #1 for getting it right where all others had either guessed wrong or failed to comprehend the question, must have found himself in a quandary:

1. As to whether or not #1 was GA worthy, in that his post included answers both correct and incorrect; and in that # 1 seemed not to discern his having, himself, solved the puzzle.
2. As to some means by which to GA only that which was correctly stated by (and in) #1.
3. As to a means to call attention, and hopefully draw GA praise, to only the correct part of #1 (that part which is re-stated and elucidated in #12), but to do so without drawing undeserved praise...for merely being first to recognize the correctness of #1.

Evidently, #12 perceived that posting anonymously would only partly resolve the dilemma: assuming the mantle of proxy and posting (indenturing...with greater clarity) in #1 thread would make it obvious to discerning and (misguidedly to) undiscerning alike, that the two posts had a common correctness only attributable to #1. So then, faced with a continuing dilemma as to how well-deserved GA's might be attracted for #1, #1's reasoning (and good reasoning at that) for posting GA's to both #1 and #12 must have gone something like this:

• Reasoning people would reason that the GA posted to both (in succession) could only rightly apply to that portion of each which was not incorrect or invalid.
• While GA's for both amount, in essence, to a GAs (such as they might appear) for only one, nevertheless (and assuming for the moment that others would have quickly given GA's to #1 had they only perceived its correct elements), nevertheless the two, "official" Almost-GA's would amount to a full GA for at least one, even if only unofficially.
• If people sensed that #1's answer is a conceit or otherwise tainted (by which is meant...they believed that #1 author posted already knowing the answer but pretending not to...because OP and #1 are by the same author), then the option would still be there to post GA to #12...thereby depriving #1 of "official" recognition.
• Or if they sensed genuineness in #1's reply to OP, then the option would remain to post GA to #1, in which event...
• The official, full-GA status (and status weighting by vote count), whichever between #1 and #12 it might be bestowed upon, would be left to others to ultimately decide...and neither to #1 nor to #12.
• Finally, if it proved the case that objections such as gsuhas' should arise among those of lesser subtlety and be published, such objections would, themselves, provide the forum by which to explain and thereby alleviate such miss-perceptions.

Hope this helps.

Nono1

So if "..No progression. No linguistics. Just the missing stick letter among all stick letters ..", what happened to H,I,K,L,T,V,X,Z & any others I missed?

I have a question:

If the sequence consists of letters composed of straight strokes, then why aren't H, I, K and L included in the list?

OK, I'll put away my pot-stirring spoon now...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Maybe sounds a bit tough, I didn't mean to be it, but the meaning is the same.

interesting

If it is from an English lecturer, I'd suggest A

The sequence of letters is irrelevant as the question doesn't refer to it...

I take it as a linguistic question... e.g If the questing mark didn't exist, what letter could be used as a substitute?

In which case the answer is A 'eh?' (geddit A).

Del

I cannt understand. explain futher more.

'Eh?' is used as an indication of a question, or as meaning 'pardon I didn't understand/hear' in colloquial English.

E.G 'Do you want a cup of tea eh?'
or if someone mumbles something you don't hear you might just say 'Eh?'

it would be pronounced 'ay' (A)

It's meant to be a clever and subtle joke which an English Lecturer might find faintly ammusing.

Del

eh?

ah. good answer, I vote. haha

"Ha ha"? And not "Huh?!"?

... more specifically, your feline friend's flamboyant allusion, rather than to "Eh?" (pronounced, with questioning inflection, like e as in egg), is actually in reference to the even more colloquial expression, "Aay?" (pronounced, with rising inflection, like hay, except without the initial h sound) that is spoken by certain rustic folks in central & western Canada and along the contiguous, northernmost tier of US states by descendants of Scandinavian extraction. As parodied in a famous Cheech & Chong record album (of the 1970's), the expression is sometimes also associated with uncouth laboring, logging industry workers who have been too-long isolated from "civilizing" influences.

Mr. Cat's post makes a humorous play on, both, words and letters: by (first) feigning what a befuddled, (North American) backwoods person might say when confronted by such a riddle; and (additionally) by "speaking" as if to ingenuously repeat back a "letter" (guess) in the riddle that rhymes with the colloquial pronunciation, "Aay?" ... which, in the former instance, would be tantamount to saying: "Huh?" or "Say (bloody) what?" or "How's that?" ... and so on and so forth.

By his resort to puns, however, we can also know that Mr. Cat was not having one of his more facile days when it comes to glibness, or spikiness, of tongue.

Anyway, the selection, A, is incorrect, as our punster openly acknowledged by the throwaway "humour" of his reply.

What on earth are you talking about? is that all really folk custom usage?

I seem not to bear in mind so much odd words.

That's the English for you.

What was the question?

Re: Canadians saying "Eh?"

I think you're talking about the Bob and Doug MacKenzie album. It was done by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, then of the Second City comedy TV show, and later of a Bob and Doug MacKenzie movie, and then greater fame, at least for Moranis. NOT Cheech and Chong.

So, someone should have their GA taken away in this silly peer rating system. Hoser!

Take off A, To the great white north. Is it getting warm in here?

Canadians saying, "Aay?"

Nope. Cheech & Chong, before Second City: regarding the crab (lice) infested ("she was all picked over") encountress of the Aay-saying north woods logger (Chong, as I recall). If I can find and pull out the LP, I'll get a release date for you. That's if...

Of course, my post was also based on first hand "ear witness" of the speech peculiarity (by Scandanavian descendants) along the 49th parallel.

Guess work Del eh? Good one eh?

Why not x? Y seems logical, as well, because the letter itself sound like a question. I prefer the simple question mark.

Anyone else think of Victor Borge's spoken pronunciation skit from a few decades back? It's funny, and I'm confident one could find it on youtube if you took the time.

Ah yes I like your Y...
Eh?

You should have put is "Why not x x"

Y is on the list already.

As for X, how many straight strokes does it comprise? Two? Four? Three?

I think that this should replace the question mark: . As in "I can't believe I just asked that "

Use the = sign. A question is the same as a math problem requesting someone provide an answer. 243x567 =

A,E,F,M,?,W,Y

Ex-lecturers are not usually in the habit of sending e-mails to past students unless... Does your name start with A?

"A., Everything Feels Meaningless ?Here? Without You" (Sigh...)

Or to add more drama:

..."Miserably ?Horrible?" (tears and cries)

It is positively deplorable that the rest of the forum mistook such sensitive feelings for mathematics! And coming from an English lecturer, no less!

Good day everyone.

So what letter should replace the word perspicacity?

Good point. I should add that the anal retentive are also known for a lack of a sense of humour.

But they are great at dusting. And they bother to mark their comments as 'off-topic', when in fact the whole thread is meant to be playful.

See:-

http://ac4ca.com/newsletters/ACCA%20News9.pdf

and:-

http://ac4ca.com/newsletters/ACCA%20News10.pdf

So it wasn't a romantic riddle, after all!

Quite a let-down, really...

I got an email from my ex-english lecturer. She asked me some questions and one of them is as below.

What letter should replace the question mark?

A,E,F,M,?,W,Y

Nothing worse like an English lecturer helping with decaying the English language......well I guess that would be an history lecturer rewriting history

where do you stop.......before you know it, the next question is what letter can we use to replace the letter "a".

Personally, I don't favor replacing the ? with anything. It makes it so much simpler to indicate that an answer is anticipated.

I say it´s N, because it is the other letter which can be composed of three lines. The sequence I see is 3,4,3,4. Maybe I´m just dumb, but I don´t think the English teacher is thinking of a progression.

So many sequence of numbers going on I'm getting confused.

A personal question my friend 95324, " Why you selected this 95324?"

Is it March 24th., 1995? your birthday??

:::yep:::