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What's wrong with begs the question? It's a regular part of my vocabulary and I'm a southern American.

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• achr2 10y ago
  'begging the question' is the name of a specific logical fallacy and is not grammatically correct. You could say 'begs for the question' or as the parent comment suggests...
• MaxfordAndSons 10y ago
  It's true that people use it that way without issue in everyday conversation, but technically "begging the question" is a logical fallacy in which a statement/proposition presupposes its own truth. See http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/ for further info (and a laugh that this site exists).
• cyphar 10y ago
  "Begs the question" refers to a logical fallacy[1], though in modern language usually it's conflated with "invites the question" (which is what people generally mean when they say "begs the question" outside of a comment thread on Reddit). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
• bryondowd 10y ago
  I think this article sums it up: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/begs-the-question-update http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/begs-the-... tldr: Begs the question is a formal term for when a conclusion is not supported by given arguments. Using it the way most people do is technically incorrect, but has become common enough that it is in the gray area where one can consider it the new correct usage.