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Which begs the question: when are PC makers going to take their fingers off their a$$ and start producing decent hardware? (with a non Linux-restricting impleme
by roma1n 14y ago
Which begs the question: when are PC makers going to take their fingers off their a$$ and start producing decent hardware? (with a non Linux-restricting implementation of secure boot, KTHXBYE)
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago“Which begs the question” That doesn’t mean what you think it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
- derleth 14y ago> That doesn’t mean what you think it means. It does now: Usage dictates meaning. (Unless you think 'faggot' just means 'bundle of sticks'.)
- Evbn 14y agoroma1n just changed hir usage.
- Cushman 14y ago> Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question," or "impels the question," and follow that phrase with the question raised,[17] for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?" Yes it does.
- roma1n 14y agoAh, I stand corrected. So that "raises the question", right?
- slurgfest 14y agoYes, that is a good substitute
- vidarh 14y agoThe only time I see the old usage of begging the question referenced at all is when pedants wants to correct people for the new usage. I'm pretty confident I've never come across the original usage outside of these types of discussions. That to me says it all bout which usage is current. And it also makes this type of pedantry all the more annoying. In other words: Yes, it now means what he thought it means.