Beautiful! Thanks for that! I'm gonna post that on my office door. Poor T-Rex ;)
-Pat On 2010-12-13, at 12:04 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > On 10-12-13 01:49 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >> >> The phrase ``to beg the question'' means to indulge in circular reasoning; >> to assume what is to be proven. Unfortunately that meaning is becoming lost >> in the wilderness of ignorance that surrounds us, and the phrase is almost >> universally used to mean ``to raise the question'' or ``to evince the >> necessity >> of an answer to the question''. The language thus loses subtlety and nuance, >> and Newspeak takes over and limits our ability to express our thoughts. And >> that is doubleplus ungood! :-) >> > > <http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=693> > <http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1841> > > cheers > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -------------- Patrick Bolger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Alberta _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
