dear fellow law students...
...please STOP using the phrase "begs the question" unless you're going to use it properly. you're making yourselves look like assholes. and please don't think that by continuing to use it incorrectly you will eventually be able to convince the rest of us that "begging the question" is justifiably equivalent to "raising the question".
also, please refrain from saying "another bite at the apple". i don't have a smart ass link to add to this request, i just think it's a silly phrase and, in general, references to bobbing for apples are just weird.
warmest regards,
me
posted by emily @ Monday, September 18, 2006
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4 Comments:
i'd like to add to your list, in which i wholly concur, the phrases "flood of litigation," any related slippery slope bullshit (as well as many marginal uses of the phrase "slippery slope,"), and, i don't know, some others that elude me (and thankfully so).
regrettably, in the otherwise erudite, thoughtful article in this month's Atlantic addressing the "preemptive" prosecution of putative would-be terrorists, the author uses "beg the question" in the way that offends. it's like a huge shitstain in the middle of the page.
OH MY GOD.
A certain Professor of a certain class I take at a certain law school that is not Pitt MISUSES "BEGS THE QUESTION" BETWEEN TWO AND THREE TIMES EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN CLASS.
I have never had such a petty and ENGRAGING academic expeience.
-elizabeth (whose computer no longer remembers her log on information because it has a new, empty hard drive)
I like how I made up the word "ENGRAGING" there. That begs the question of whether I know how to spell ;)
har har.
-elizabeth
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