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Thotas said:Something I seem to run into on at least a weekly basis lately: people using the phrase "beg the question", and obviously not knowing what it means.
If someone brings up a point that makes you wonder about something else, that "raises" the question you're about to ask. Or "brings" or "poses" the question. But it doesn't beg the question. Begging the question is a fallacy of logic, in which a conclusion is rendered meaningless because it is referenced in it's own arguement; you'll also hear it called "circular logic".
They are completely different things, and it drives me nuts.
I've had to edit this post twice now because I noticed a spelling or grammar error once I let it go. I hope there are no more remaining!
You're a man after my own heart, Thotas! With your complaint and your self-correction.
I hate hearing people say "I could care less" when they mean to say "I couldn't care less". If you *could* care less, then obviously the item/event your are referring to is not as lacking in importance to you as you claim.
And someday I'm going to take a rocket launcher to all the people who say "nucular". It's *nuclear*, folks!! It's not that hard to pronounce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
