In the AMA, Microsoft was pitched a question that was a jokish attempt at getting them to confirm the existence of the Surface Pro 4, and perhaps even provide guidance on when it will be released.
Thus, "Your name is John," beginning with a medium pitch and ending with a lower one (falling intonation), is a simple assertion; "Your name is John?", with a rising intonation (high final pitch), indicates a question.
(Can you imagine the end of every sentence rising in pitch? Like a question?) Processed at zero speed, Auto-Tune turns the lolling curves of the human voice into a zigzag of right-angled steps.
If pitching was a question going into the postseason, the Yankees' staff has certainly proved itself worthy.
But for a staff whose pitching was a question mark entering camp, even minor injuries are cause for concern.
But the Mets have other needs, and their commitment to Bay — and, by extension, making offense a priority over pitching — raises a question about their overall strategy: Instead of signing Bay to make an already good offense better, would they be better off pursuing John Lackey to improve an inconsistent rotation?
This phenomenon has been widely studied and was generalized as the Strong Universalist Hypothesis (Ladd, 1981), according to which pitch rising indicates a question and pitch falling indicates a statement.
But, pronouncing the name of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with perfect pitch, she avoided a question that has bedeviled experts on Eastern European affairs: what the United States can or should do to "restore Georgian sovereignty" over its separatist regions.
We pitched a simple question to the panelists, does the iPad change everything and how is it transforming their business?
Each of Pedro's pitching pals has a question mark attached to his arm.
