Thread: "It answers the question: ..."

Originally Posted by markhemstead

I see, so it's a shame that people answer a problem with "It answers the question "____?".

Is there any way I can send a memo to all Russian speakers, to stop them doing this? :P

You can put it in your signature.

Yes, it's a quite common assumption that these 'questions' should be obvious to a non-native speaker. It seems natural to native speakers since they remember how they learnt Russian grammar in school (it helps enormously when you teach Russian children, but doesn't help at all with foreigners). It's not their fault, they really want to help. )))