Originally Posted by babymusic
I originally thought that rhetoric confused me because it was Western thinking. I am an Easterner, so sometimes I really don’t understand it, which makes me even more confused.
Today I understand that Westerners can’t understand it either. ^_^
Ah, yes, that may well confuse.

We use the same basic word two ways: Rhetoric and Rhetorical.

Rhetoric is generally a well-planned speech to state a specific view.
It's what you will often hear from politicians and they usually reject or ignore any questioning of the meaning or intent of their speech.

Rhetorical can be used to refer to Rhetoric, but is (in the UK at least) is more often used to mean that a question does not really need an answer.
I guess that use comes because questioning or doubting the "well-planned speech" will just be ignored.

I think there are words and sentence structures in most or all languages that will confuse people from other cultures with other languages.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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