A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Dr. Floyd

What's that? Chicken?

— 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1968

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks what something is and proposes chicken as a possible answer. The two questions identify a possibility without confirming it.

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