Dear Language Nerd, What’s the difference between “begging the question” and “raising the question”? I was with a colleague yesterday and he was going on about how furious he was that people use the two interchangeably. I didn’t know why it mattered so I just nodded and grimaced at appropriate times. Please help, I am […]
Hello, Language Nerd, A lot of new media speech, like netspeak or leetspeak is derided as a corruption of standard English. Is there really anything negative socially about the rise of those kinds of speech? -Daniel S. *** Hello Daniel! It’s interesting that you chose netspeak and leetspeak as your examples, because they are actually […]