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by jobeirne 5848 days ago
You're not using ``begs the question'' properly.
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What is with your style of quotation marks? I've seen them before, but I just don't understand why anyone uses them. Care to explain, please?
Picked it up from LaTeX, but I kept using it elsewhere because it's less ambiguous.
tex makes them pretty
Tex ain't here, he went home
That's interesting. Apparently, I've never seen the correct usage, or somehow didn't pick up on it if I did.

Also, it seems that there is disagreement as to whether the use really was incorrect or not. Modern usage and all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

Either way, I just learned something new.