NO IT FUCKING DOES NOT
READ THIS, INFIDEL!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question


'Many English speakers assume "begs the question" means "raises the question" and use it accordingly:[11] for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?" Many experts deem such usage incorrect.'

I appear to be an expert!
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:24, archived)

OH YEAH?
www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=693
( manolith hooray for me, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:29, archived)

no no
rebuttals are only legal with xkcd. You find one there and I'll think about it.

If all phrases are allowed to be utterly abused then the original meaning just has be be reduced to saying "you fucking idiot, that's a stupid argument" as every phrase previously able to exactly sum up the situation just means "I like chips" now.

How about Catch 22?? No fucker knows what that means. Including me mind, I have too look it up before I use it everytime as I forget.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:32, archived)

yeah, to be honest i'm no believer in the perversion of meaning thing
i just like having a dinosaur comics for basically any conversation
( manolith hooray for me, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:38, archived)

i was going to say this but i didn't want to be mean to lovely jenpots even though it makes me twitch.

( sleepybinky, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:43, archived)

I am not being mean
just proving I am a more valid human than her
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:47, archived)

i dunno, see i have met her,
so i know for a fact she is a valid touchable warm and living human,
whereas you are merely pedantic pixels.
( sleepybinky, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 9:48, archived)