Can I please teach you how to make spaghetti squash?
Can I please, please, please have a (species of pet)".
If I am actually trying to please a person I love, then how can I hate others trying to please the same person, even if they are doing it in a different way?
But, de Man points out, in "Semiology and Rhetoric," grammatically the sentence is a question, and it means "Please tell me, how can I know the difference?" The meanings are contradictory, but there is nothing in "what the text really says" that tells us which one is correct.
So sad... Evin, I just wonder how can I contact to Joe... Would you please ask for Joe if he agree to tell me his E-MAIL adress and phone number.
But how can that please the Lord?
"Some of my anger was political," he says now, "because I felt the response, particularly of [David] Cameron, to the crisis was so morally feeble; that he was thinking as a calculating, how-can-I-keep-my-job, how-can-I-best-please-my-base politician, rather than asking himself 'What's the right thing to do?'.
How else can I gauge if I'm pleasing you or not?
