Beg The Question
November 17, 2005 1:34 PM
Beg The Question
BTQ was previously posted to MeFi as an April Fool's Day gimmick, but I decided to turn it into a concise central venue to inform the public of this too-common idiomatic travesty. Show off your stodgy pedantic obsessive tendencies by posting a link to begthequestion.info whenever someone misuses the phrase in a thread. There are also cards and shirts and mugs. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, descriptivists and "language-is-evolving" types need not take offense. See the FBAQ for more info.
BTQ was previously posted to MeFi as an April Fool's Day gimmick, but I decided to turn it into a concise central venue to inform the public of this too-common idiomatic travesty. Show off your stodgy pedantic obsessive tendencies by posting a link to begthequestion.info whenever someone misuses the phrase in a thread. There are also cards and shirts and mugs. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, descriptivists and "language-is-evolving" types need not take offense. See the F
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