Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The trouble is, the "true" meaning of begging the question is totally counterintuitive from the phrase, and very specialized in its application (law and rhetoric, and not even modern writing rhetoric textbooks use it). Whereas, it's logical to assume that "begging the question" means "begging for the question to be asked".
That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
Descriptivist dog!
That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
I think that begs the question.
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I think that begs the question.
What question?
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I would be so screwed if people had mikes on me. I would totally be that person smiling for the camera and then turning around muttering "motherfuckers."
Not the Prince I was expecting.
It's some of the most human I've read Charles to be, despite some awkward phrasing.
I just thought of a problem -- I need lunch. And still have no doorbell. Or menus. I'll need to do some wrangling.
Well if the President can call a reporter a "major league asshole" on-mike (by accident), then anybody can, right?
Descriptivist dog!
Humph. Go yell at the laywers who decided it made sense to call a spade a snozzwhanger.