Dishonesty and disrespect...

Interrogatives are sentence constructions that are used to ask a question and by lawyers to ask a leading question;

leading question - a question phrased in such a way as to suggest the desired answer; a lawyer may ask leading questions on cross-examination.

This form has entered our discourse as a way of bullying hasn't it.

If you listen to wireless and TV you will here the  interviewers/interlocutors using them all the time, wont you?

As Anne Wilson Schaeff points out in her seminal work When Society Becomes An Addict they are part of the self centred pertsons armoury of trying to make  the world revolve around them and asked in such a way that they are both dishonest and disrespectful at one and the same time.

Aren't they?

The new Zealand media is full of liteweights  with very little education and mostly retired sports people who are semi-literate and need a job.

The others are just plain bullies who think that being on telly entitles them to be right about everything with no dissension permitted whatsoever and the best way of doing this is asking questions that cant be answered with a stagiht yes or no.

so we are not straightforward people at all.

Are we?

There is a dispute in anthropological circles about national character and no agreement but it is recognised that education and induced pattens of thought does produce a people with very close pschological parameters.

Doesn't it.

The main offenders: