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English can work that way too, converting statements to questions with inflection or the addition of a question mark. e.g. "You understand?"

However, in this case, interpreting this as question rather than a statement leads us to see a question about the inner thoughts of the commenter, which clearly is not what was intended.

What I believe was intended was to make a statement that was to be understood as uncertain. However, the "I think" prefix is all that is necessary for that and the addition of a question mark just creates uncertainty about the it being interrogative/declarative.




I interpreted it as 'upspeak'




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