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Yeah. In the example I shared, my charitable interpretation would be that it's identifying the trick question as "a setup" where the punch line is the confusion the audience experiences. And in a meta sense, that would also describe the form of the entire chat.





To state the obvious in case it wasn't: A trick question can be both a joke and a rhethorical question.



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