On 2006-09-27, wrote:

Which begs the questions!

KevinS gonna slap your wrist, young lady!

And rightly so. The correct expression is "bugs the question"
(preferably one question at a time) from "buggers the question", and
not --- as is often supposed --- from "beggars the question".

HTH.

--
The dark smell of dankness grew stronger and stronger.
[G.P. Taylor]

Adam Funk wrote:
On 2006-09-27, wrote:

Which begs the questions!

KevinS gonna slap your wrist, young lady!

And rightly so. The correct expression is "bugs the question"
(preferably one question at a time) from "buggers the question", and
not --- as is often supposed --- from "beggars the question".

Interesting. I have always heard "begs the question", never "bugs
the question".

Much as the Brits must be proud of one of the three pillars of the
British Navy, I do not find "buggers the question" to be an attractive
version.

GFH

wrote

Which begs the questions!

KevinS gonna slap your wrist, young lady!

And rightly so. The correct expression is "bugs the question"
(preferably one question at a time) from "buggers the question", and
not --- as is often supposed --- from "beggars the question".

Interesting. I have always heard "begs the question", never "bugs
the question".

Much as the Brits must be proud of one of the three pillars of the
British Navy, I do not find "buggers the question" to be an attractive
version.

The just debug it, sheesh.

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

--oTTo--

On 2006-09-28, wrote:

Interesting. I have always heard "begs the question", never "bugs
the question".

Much as the Brits must be proud of one of the three pillars of the
British Navy,

That would be "sods the question".


I do not find "buggers the question" to be an attractive version.

NTTAWTT.

--
And on special dank midnights in August he peeks
out of the shutters and sometimes he speaks
and tells how the Lorax was lifted away. [Dr. Seuss]

wrote:
Adam Funk wrote:
On 2006-09-27, wrote:
Which begs the questions!

KevinS gonna slap your wrist, young lady!

And rightly so. The correct expression is "bugs the question"
(preferably one question at a time) from "buggers the question", and
not --- as is often supposed --- from "beggars the question".

Interesting. I have always heard "begs the question", never "bugs
the question".

Probably because of an inadvertent vowel shift. Those can be socially
embarrassing.

Dave "and this of course opens the door for [HAMMOND] to enter the thread"
DeLaney
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeableBLINK
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

Adam Funk wrote:
On 2006-09-28, wrote:

Interesting. I have always heard "begs the question", never "bugs
the question".

Much as the Brits must be proud of one of the three pillars of the
British Navy,

That would be "sods the question".

are you Merkins EVER going to learn the language?

"Navy" = sea = high-seas buggery = "bugs the question"
"Navvy" = land = digging through ground = "sods the question"

our Austrian neighbours are inexplicably fond of mishearding the
former as "bigs the question", though on reflection that's possibly
because as a meaningless statement it wouldn't seem at all unusual to
them in spoken language.


butting

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I am very new to programming drivers so if I sound un-knowledgeable
then it's because I am.
-- first4internet's Ceri Coburn on writing Sony's DRM rootkit
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting

On 2006-09-28, David DeLaney wrote:

Probably because of an inadvertent vowel shift. Those can be socially
embarrassing.

Not as bad as the Great Vowel Shift.


Dave "and this of course opens the door for [HAMMOND] to enter the thread"
DeLaney

Why?

--
Vielen Dank

On 2006-09-28, Bryce Utting wrote:

Much as the Brits must be proud of one of the three pillars of the
British Navy,

That would be "sods the question".

are you Merkins EVER going to learn the language?

"Navy" = sea = high-seas buggery = "bugs the question"
"Navvy" = land = digging through ground = "sods the question"

The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, buggery and the lash? That
album title just doesn't sound right.


our Austrian neighbours are inexplicably fond of mishearding the
former as "bigs the question", though on reflection that's possibly
because as a meaningless statement it wouldn't seem at all unusual to
them in spoken language.

Are you sure you're not thinking of "bigs up the question", which I
think (perhaps Kevins can help with this) is related to "pimps the
question"?

--
And on special dank midnights in August he peeks
out of the shutters and sometimes he speaks
and tells how the Lorax was lifted away. [Dr. Seuss]

Otto Bahn wrote:

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

GFH

wrote

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

--oTTo--

Otto Bahn wrote:
wrote

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

I thought the classic formulation was "Rum, sodomy and the lash".

Alan Jones

Otto Bahn wrote:

wrote

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

Usually pronounced and spelled "booger," with the "oo" of "book."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...nary&va=booger

http://www.bartleby.com/61/95/B0389500.html

--
Bob Lieblich
Bigger bagger beggar

Alan Jones wrote:
Otto Bahn wrote:
wrote

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

I thought the classic formulation was "Rum, sodomy and the lash".

Certainly a good translation into American English.

GFH

On 2006-09-29, Otto Bahn wrote:

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

In the 1970s they used to fire people for saying it on the radio.

--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
[Poe]

"Robert Lieblich" wrote in message ...
Otto Bahn wrote:

wrote

More seriously, "bugger" doesn't have the same connotation
over here. I guess we don't have the same fascination....

Oh? Rum, buggery and brutality. All three. Which word do you
not understand?

None. In America, "bugger" is a peice or clump of snot.

Usually pronounced and spelled "booger," with the "oo" of "book."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...nary&va=booger

"Bugger" must be a NYC/Northeast thing.

--oTTo--