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[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know this is not the point, but "begs this question" is the oddest construction of that phrase I've heard yet.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“Begs the question” frustrates me. I know language changes, I know I shouldn’t be prescriptivist about this.

But it always strikes me as someone trying to sound smart and failing. They think it’s a fancy way of conveying something it didn’t mean (though now it does because people used it so much without knowing what it meant).

Just use “raises.”