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It raises the question - begging the question is something else. As for the question, it probably has to do with the gender of the noun. I bet 'deer' derives f
by philipov 2y ago
It raises the question - begging the question is something else.
As for the question, it probably has to do with the gender of the noun. I bet 'deer' derives from a neuter-gendered word in Anglo-Saxon, while 'bird' does not.
Noun gender is the system used by many languages to categorize words that have different declension rules. It's atrophied in English, but is implicitly still present in the various "inconsistencies" that pop up.
- joenot443 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question I actually had no idea about that distinction, appreciate it. Noun gender makes a lot of sense.