Date: 2022-03-02 03:06 am (UTC)
grayswandir: Chu Shuzhi, reading. (Guardian: Chu Shuzhi)
From: [personal profile] grayswandir
I'm not sure what's happening at the end of this sentence grammatically.

There's a really common rhetorical-question construction in Cantonese that's similar (negation + X + question-y final particle), so that was the first thing I thought of when I read it, and based on what [personal profile] presumenothing said, it sounds like the meaning is the same -- I often see the Canto version translated as a negative rhetorical question like "is it not the case that X?" or "then wouldn't it be X?" or "then won't X happen?" (or just non-rhetorically as "then [obviously] X"). So maybe in this case something like, "just join the SID and you'll know, won't you?"
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