I wonder: Question or a statement?

[nq:1]Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?[/nq]
With a period. It is a statement.

[nq:1]Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark? It seems clearly a statement, yet it would be expanded to "I wondered, 'How does it do that?'"[/nq]
When you restate a question in that indirect manner, it does not take a question mark.
I asked him, "Where are you going?"
I asked him where he was going.

Best Donna Richoux

[nq:2]Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?[/nq]
[nq:1]With a period. It is a statement.[/nq]
What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly belong, as in this sentence from a paper currently in preparation: "The question therefore arises naturally of which one is best suited for modelling

[nq:2]With a period. It is a statement.[/nq]
[nq:1]What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly ... only at a rather late stage that I decided to follow the rules and replace it with a full stop.[/nq]
I'd replace the "of" with a colon, and have the question mark.
Online waterways route planner:

[nq:1]yet it would be expanded to "I wondered, 'How does it do that?'"[/nq]
Why?
DC

[nq:1]Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?[/nq]
At one time I would have been guided by its grammatical form as a statement, and used a period. Today I consider that a question mark is correct if either the sense or the grammatical form implies a question, and would use one.

Mark Brader, Toronto "I may be ranting, but I'm right!" (Em

[nq:2]With a period. It is a statement.[/nq]
[nq:1]What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly ... only at a rather late stage that I decided to follow the rules and replace it with a full stop.[/nq]
Do you pronounce it differently than you would pronounce

The question therefore arises naturally of 'Which one is best sui

I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel wrote unless someone else quotes him. This makes me suspect that I'm missing other aue traffic.
My junk mail filters reject only two domains, plus anything where the "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel.

Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews.

Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NS

[nq:1] I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel wrote unless someone else quotes him. This makes me ... the "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews.[/nq]
There's a .cn in Athel's address.

James

[nq:2] I've just realised that I never see anything that ... Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews.[/nq]
[nq:1]There's a .cn in Athel's address.[/nq]
Ah, so there is. Thanks for punching through my blind spot.

I'm not sure how to fix that, because Thunderbird has only a crude method for constructing news filters.

Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Austr