Attention Wordsmiths

time for another of lawman's pet peeves

[lawman]

I read and hear persons who obviously have a college degree who use the term "it begs the question" in such a manner to mean that "it raises the question". When I learned the term, it meant something else entirely.

How do you use it? If you don't use it, what do understand it to mean?

lawman

[TheDoctor]

Shouldn't that be..."don't know nuffink?"

Someone from Lancashire saying "nuffink"? The mind boggles (unless he was extracting the urine).

[4eyes]

..more likely to be 'nowt'

as in 'tha knows nowt, lad'

[digitalghost]

>>not biting

;) That's why I love these types of discussions. The good Marquis was French, yes. But the title has Germanic roots. Good thing he was a Marquis huh? Comte de Sade doesn't have the same ring to it, no matter how you pronounce "Marquis".

[Leosghost]

Shouldn't that be..."don't know nuffink?"

Nope ..should be "dont know 'owt" or "don't know nowt"

Not biting

'sfunny sure there was a chapitre chez le Marquis de Sade 'bout biting ..just after <snip> and before <snip>. ~)

[4eyes]

So, Markwis Dee Sayde it is then
;)

[Leosghost]

But the title

Le quel titre? there were at least 400! :)

"O"........thought you were asleep ..

[Leosghost]

plus in our fambly ..Marquis outranks Comte..me ol' Duch....

C'mon guys pick up the pace ..!allez.. allez ..zu

[digitalghost]

>>asleep

Me? Rarely. ;)

I was debating the meaning of "nephesh" with a mathematician. He doesn't accept my "anima" argument. Ahh well. Back to etymology class...

[Leosghost]

While we're on the subject ( well.... someone was about a day ago ; ) of misuses of words ..can someone with mod status ...( look no further than those with tastes in literature as eclectic as the output of hugh hefner and burkes peerage ) ...slide over here [webmasterworld.com...]
and point out that the thread title is wrong .."HIV" ..isn't any kind of "word" ..it's an acronym ...
Where is the point of all of these "geeky" spell checker doodads and grammatical whossits built into browsers if no ever uses the 'n things ....is that encouraging for the poor souls at mozilla 'n opera (not to mention head geek at "Have we got code for you ..hey have we got code for you ..." at Bills ...
No its not!you want them to feel unwanted ..? ( well ok maybe one of them ) ....

C'mon you've had the time while I typed all that interlude ...whadya got ..huh ..Markwiss!

[HarryM]

It's 2 a.m. in the UK and I'm off to bed. Think I'll dig out the old Markwis's La Philosophie dans le boudoir for a little bedtime read...