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minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·6 days agoI won’t stop watching, but it drives me nuts when lawyers in a show misuse “begs the question”
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoIt drives me nuts when anyone gets that wrong. “But language evolves!!” Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea!
minus-squareඞmir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days ago Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea! Whales and dolphins: hold my legs
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoI think there are probably about three people who use the expression “begs the question” as it’s defined in books. Through misuse it has evolved to mean, “brings up the question,” just as “based off” has come to mean the same as “based on”.
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agolawyers would know the difference
minus-squareeestileib@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoWe got three of those people right here in this thread baby. Aristotle in the house
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoHow do you feel about other words or phrases with multiple definitions, like “theory”?
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoIf a scientist character uses the word in a scientific settings with the colloquial meaning, it would annoy me.
I won’t stop watching, but it drives me nuts when lawyers in a show misuse “begs the question”
It drives me nuts when anyone gets that wrong.
“But language evolves!!”
Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea!
Whales and dolphins: hold my legs
I think there are probably about three people who use the expression “begs the question” as it’s defined in books. Through misuse it has evolved to mean, “brings up the question,” just as “based off” has come to mean the same as “based on”.
lawyers would know the difference
We got three of those people right here in this thread baby.
Aristotle in the house
How do you feel about other words or phrases with multiple definitions, like “theory”?
If a scientist character uses the word in a scientific settings with the colloquial meaning, it would annoy me.