Misuse of "begging the question"

will you be my boyfriend?

Your response begs the question: are you desperate?

I don't understand what you're trying to say, can you give an example?

While you may be technically correct. The common usage of the term is wrong. However, that said, grammar is constantly evolving. Once enough people use and understand the phrase as the new connotation then it becomes correct.

I DONT GIVE A F*** ABOUT BEGGING THE QUESTION. ITS NOT GONNA HELP ME RUN THE MILE FASTER.

`bated breath, forte,

I always wondered what exactly that meant...I always here people using it like its common speech and had a feeling they had no idea what they were talking about. At least now I can call them out on it.

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Like I said you can't really do that. It is clear the phrase is evolving a secondary rhetorical meaning which is different from its purely logical meaning.

American Way wrote:

I always wondered what exactly that meant...I always here people using it like its common speech and had a feeling they had no idea what they were talking about. At least now I can call them out on it.

Saw a bum the other day begging for questions and change. I gave him a quarter.

Spring semester was good for you then? That's just wonderful

I could care less about this thread.

f this s wrote:

I could care less about this thread.

In that case I suggest you do so.

This thread begs the question - What does this have to do with running?

ooh, breaking out a nice adjective there with "haughty." you could have also tried to work in the word "hubris" somewhere just to cement your intellectual superiority. i also like the dualism of you saying that his mother has a penis, which is clearly not something a normal female should possess. however, you did leave yourself open to the observation that you not only enjoy sucking dick, but that are a certified expert in hermaphroditic fellatio- but i guess with the internet the way it is, any obscure fetish, such as shemale love, can be indulged in so long as one has a credit card and little shame.

also, you forgot a comma, dickweed.

you're not funny or interesting. don't try to be something you're not.

jester wrote:

ooh, breaking out a nice adjective there with "haughty." you could have also tried to work in the word "hubris" somewhere just to cement your intellectual superiority. i also like the dualism of you saying that his mother has a penis, which is clearly not something a normal female should possess. however, you did leave yourself open to the observation that you not only enjoy sucking dick, but that are a certified expert in hermaphroditic fellatio- but i guess with the internet the way it is, any obscure fetish, such as shemale love, can be indulged in so long as one has a credit card and little shame.

also, you forgot a comma, dickweed.

you're not funny or interesting. don't try to be something you're not.

Ok "jester," or should I say Blind Eye. You forgot to capitalize "However." If you think I was trying to impress by using the word "haughty" then you're the idiot that needed to look up this relatively simple word in the dictionary. Furthermore, I never said I enjoy sucking dick, just that I graduated with honors in doing so with your mom.

Anyway, I think my original post was fairly interesting. If not, ignore it. It had died because not enough people found it interesting. Someone bumped it. I'm sorry it offended you - which begs the question: maybe you are just a little defensive because you misuse the phrase too often. Dickweed.

sorry to burst a hole in your theory there, sherlock, but i'm not blind eye.

the crack about "haughty" being an impressive word was apparently lost on you: it's a 5th grade word, and not one i would have been caught dead throwing around when you're trying to bust on someone. i would have used conceited or egotistical. actually, i think i would have said something more like "you don't have to be elite to be elitist." anyway, "haughty" is simplistic and, well, kinda gay.

you know, like you, for sucking that guy's mother's cock. i don't care if you enjoy it or not, you still did it with gusto.

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