Post AX9MGAyDzaH9wEFUVU by karawynn@wandering.shop
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 (DIR) Post #AX9KOeEsr8TL7bx9V2 by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-06-28T12:02:53Z
       
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       🧐 Are you using "Begs the Question" correctly? 🤔 Learn the dos and don'ts of this logical fallacy. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/begs-the-question/
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9KnBVSouUDFUPN0i by beecycling@romancelandia.club
       2023-06-28T12:07:16Z
       
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       @grammargirl I wish I'd never learned the correct way, because it makes for such frequent irritation at hearing it used incorrectly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9MGAyDzaH9wEFUVU by karawynn@wandering.shop
       2023-06-28T12:23:48Z
       
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       @grammargirl Yikes. I am clearly 1) a giant nerd and 2) completely out of touch with the zeitgeist, because I only ever use it in the original sense and hadn't realized the "incorrect" usage was so widespread. I'm mostly chill about language evolution, but I don't like it when a usage shift removes a whole concept from general awareness. Trying to think how else one might communicate the original meaning... maybe "circular argument"?
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9Qb9dGYtgzgbhjge by Revlyncox@mastodon.social
       2023-06-28T13:12:28Z
       
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       @grammargirl Thank you! Super helpful! My usual audience for professional writing includes linguistic stalwarts and a couple of professional philosophers, so this is important to note.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9W5I1sPFV0BfP9nM by ccount@lor.sh
       2023-06-28T14:13:55Z
       
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       @grammargirl literally the best explanation
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9WJEjhRlvY1mYM3U by kagan@wandering.shop
       2023-06-28T14:16:27Z
       
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       @grammargirl Looks like I'm in a different boat from most of the commenters here: I know of the original, "petitio principii" meaning, but I feel that it's almost completely changed to mean "begs us to ask the question". The language changes; "decimate" now more often means to reduce *to* 10% of its original amount rather than *by* 10%, and the kids can be alright instead of all right. (I gnashed so many teeth over that last one. Descriptivism hurts sometimes.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9b827eVHJlUbEYnw by alexhall@mastodon.social
       2023-06-28T15:10:25Z
       
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       @grammargirl Incorrect use of "begs the question" will still annoy me. I'm just not able to accept language changes like that very easily. Still, it's good to know that I'm wrong to think it's invalid.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXDjgu8vjsZT96oIHg by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-06-30T15:05:11Z
       
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       @grammargirl The trouble with that is that it leaves is with no way of pointing out when someone actually begs the question.