----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)
P. J. Alling mused:
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise, not to call for an answer to the question.
I'm with you, John - I actually won a bet on this the other day. Unfortunately it's become common usage, at least with media people in Oz.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia>
