IT DOESN'T BEG THE QUESTION
hee. sorry.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Feb 08, 2006 8:07:21 am PST #5708 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
JZ - Feb 08, 2006 8:09:49 am PST #5709 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
IT DOESN'T BEG THE QUESTION
I never even use this phrase anymore. That and "moot." I've read dueling popular-vs.-precise definitions of each so many times that I just avoid them altogether out of a pathetic certainty that no matter how I say them I'm still going to fuck up.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2006 8:10:07 am PST #5710 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
The next logical question is *why* weren't we created as perfect beings, or with the intent of perfect evolution?
Maybe we aren't the final product of the plan.
The question I always think of in ID is, "Who designed the designer?"
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2006 8:11:58 am PST #5711 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
IT DOESN'T BEG THE QUESTION
Well, that's become fairly standard usage of the phrase. But yeah, technically not correct. I can't think of another simple way to convey, "which leads us to the logical question" or somesuch.
While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted to the point that we must constantly distinguish between the traditional usage and the erroneous "modern" usage. This is why we fight.
Huh.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2006 8:12:18 am PST #5712 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That and "moot."
What's the popular usage of "moot"? I've heard far too many people substitute "mute" for "moot," which earns them a hearty bitchslap (even if it's just in my mind), but, when I *do* hear "moot" used, it's always used correctly.
t edit I mean, even *Rick Springfield* knew the right way to use it....
Aims - Feb 08, 2006 8:14:58 am PST #5713 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
::looks at stopwatch::
Evolution to grammar in less than a minute. I'm impressed.
Dana - Feb 08, 2006 8:15:05 am PST #5714 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"It's a moo point. It's like a cow's point. It doesn't matter."
bon bon - Feb 08, 2006 8:15:18 am PST #5715 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2006 8:17:12 am PST #5716 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Rick - Feb 08, 2006 8:18:12 am PST #5717 of 10002
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
Agreed. Things that are hard to understand should be replaced with things that are easy to understand if the easy things do the job just as well. It's like, uh, the evolution of language.