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 :-)