Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1677 mails)

[Dennis Gallien <dwgallien@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, December 08, 2011 09:43 PM Dirk Gently wrote:
> Dennis Gallien wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 08, 2011 09:18 PM Dirk Gently wrote:
> >
> > [enormously long snip]
> >
> > > > That begs the question, does openSUSE want the *same* users as Ubuntu?
> > >
> > > Bzzzt!
> > >
> > > That BEGETS the question. (i.e. it leads to the question).
> > >
> > > Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which you assume
> > > the conclusion to prove the conclusion (I.e. "This holy book
> > > is true because it says so."  THAT is begging the question).
> >
> > I stand corrected and humbled.  (Extra embarassment:  My wife is a writer
> > and editor; if she had seen that I'd have had a lot worse done to me
> > than getting humbled.)  :)
>
> My primary purpose for posting was so that non-native English
> speakers wouldn't start adopting this recent and horrible
> locution which is spreading through this country (USA).

So Dirk, I finally found the website just for you (or perhaps you authored):

http://begthequestion.info/

To the non-native English speakers fearing this horrible spreading locution 
expidemic - and the correction was indubatably accurate - click on the link 
and as you will see, help is on the way.  :)

Be sure to also check the FAQ page for how to obtain BTQ shirts and mugs for 
that native-English speaking "pedantic linguistic curmudgeon" in your life.

--dg

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