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Re: USAGE: -ic(al) Re: [CONLANG] Most developed conlang

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 18:38
Stevo wrote:

> In a message dated 5/2/2007 12:30:33 PM Central Daylight Time, > rfmilly@MSN.COM writes: > > > > modern misuse of "beg the > > question" is probably too recent to have made it into a dictionary. > > > > What is the intended meaning of this modern misuse? >
It's being used to mean "raise ~bring up the question"-- perhaps via "beg the question" ==> beg for the question??? Whereas in fact it's a rhetorical device originally meaning "to avoid/evade/skirt around" the question. Many examples of this sense can be seen/heard/read nowadays in almost any press conference or political chat show on TV :-)