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Question Begging, Et Alii

By Patrick

Twice today I have heard abuse of the phrase, "It begs the question . . . "

ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Misuse of that phrase is a pet target of my uptight side, right up there with hearing "milk" pronounced as "melk" and "height" as "heighth," as well as overuse of the semi-colon and legal latin, conjunctive use of "thus," use of "complicated" in place of "complex," "creative" instead of "imaginative" and . . . well, the list is long and admittedly arbitrary. (And all that stuff is probably only marginally more irritating hearing someone gripe about grammar.)

I'll spare you exposition of my personal quirks, and instead open the forum for what may be important to only the very dorky and uncool (like me): if you were grammar police for a day, were would you strike first?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).