"Rationally speaking, why bother?" Go ahead, fume.
But generally speaking, why should a customer choose this designer over that?
Plainly speaking, why buy an SUV when you can drive a real car to cart around the family?
One woman probed a fellow participant who was reluctant to speak: Why don't you tell her (the facilitator) what happened to you?
Tell the host where you come from, which languages you speak, why you are interested in working for his or her farm, and what skills you can offer.
Tell the student that you'd like him to read the excerpt and figure out what the passage is about, who is speaking, why he is speaking, and to whom he seems to be addressing his words.
Just because your friends aren't friends with someone else, don't make that an obligation for you to not speak with them- Just because your friends don't speak, why can't you?
That Paula never spoke about why she left South Africa, and about why she had so little contact with her seven half-siblings, added to the perplexity.
We spoke about why he hadn't been there.
"After September 11th, none of the media spoke of why this had happened," she says.
