Re: International Ask A Question Day (14 March)

On 16/03/2024 3:37 a.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Ross Clark:
   > ?
  > Ans: It's Albert Einstein's birthday.
  >
  > Crystal gives some examples from a couple of books published 2012-3
  > under the title _Big Questions from Little People_ -- kids aged 4-12 asking,
  > big experts answering. This sort of thing doesn't appeal to me much, but you
  > can read all about it here:
  >
  > https://www.google.com/search?q=Big+questions+from+little+people&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
 What’s language related about this?!

Well, asking questions is something you do with language.
Crystal gives a few examples of language-related questions, including:
Why can't animals talk like us?  (Answered by Noam Chomsky)
...but you'll have to buy the book to get the answers.