That started because speakers WANT the unasked question to be asked so they can appear smarter by answering it. So they ask it themselves.


Christopher BJ Smith wrote:


At 1:18 PM +0000 9/12/03, Robert Patterson Finale wrote:

Hear, hear!

(And *not* the abombination, "here, here")



Well, that remarks begs the question: did you mean to say "bomb"?


And that remark in turn does NOT beg the question, because the expression does NOT mean "demanding that the question be asked." When did that start up?

Christopher

(who gets remarkably peeved about such questions, considering how many mistakes HE makes in his speech)
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