more begging of the question.

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> I wrote imprecisely.  I should have written that Sen. Nelson may
> simply have used "begged" (yes, passive) where he may have intended
> "begging":  "The question is begging to be answered" (an
> understandable utterance) vs. "...the question is begged to be
> answered."

if so, then what he said could have been either a straightforward
morphological error or (quick! let me say it before jerry cohen
does!) a blend of "the question is begging to be answered" and "the
question is begged".

arnold

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