{"id":11945,"date":"2014-04-22T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2014-04-22T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:16:29","slug":"it-begs-the-way-we-see-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=11945","title":{"rendered":"It begs the way we see the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Plumer, \"Two Degrees: How the World Failed on Climate Change<\/a>\", Vox 4\/22\/2014:<\/p>\n

\"If you\u2019re serious about 2\u00b0C, the rates of change are so significant that it begs the way we see the world. That\u2019s what people aren\u2019t prepared to embrace,\" says Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research. \"Essentially you\u2019d have to start asking questions about our current society and how we develop and grow.\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few years ago, we looked into the whole \"begs the question\" question: \"Begging the Question: We Have Answers<\/a>\", 4\/29\/2010; \"Begging the Question: We Have Examples<\/a>\", 5\/1\/2010.<\/p>\n

But I missed the interestingly diverse range of ways that beg<\/strong> <\/em>has been re-lexicalized as a result of people's attempts to make some sense of question begging: it can be taken to mean \"(the question) comes up\", or \"(something) brings up the issue of\", or just plain \"(someone or something) asks\". Some internet examples:<\/p>\n

The question therefore begs the way to combat obesity or maybe the slightest excess weight as well as answer is based on healthy eating.<\/span><\/p>\n

And during all this, you'll get sexual theory that underlies the actions, which begs the way into the next level of the book…<\/span><\/p>\n

It begs the way I feel about my wife and the music just makes me want to cry….for joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question begs \u2014 what is the role of P-glycoprotein in normal physiology?<\/span><\/p>\n

Verdict begs: What happened to civility?<\/span><\/p>\n

Forty Years After Martin Luther King's Assassination, the Question Begs: What if He Had Lived?<\/span><\/p>\n

Admirable – but the question begs what, if any role DISPERSANTS play in this training?<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the question Facebook begs: what have you been up to?<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiosity begs… What is your opinion on Unitarian Universalists?<\/span><\/p>\n

The question begs. What language are you translating?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0So the question begs, what is this going to cost US?<\/span><\/p>\n

The question of the ontology behind it is intriguing because it really begs whether this is a legitimate question to ask or whether we're just able to ask this question since we did come into existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

A thought-provoking piece that begs whether we should rethink medical privacy to accelerate advancement.<\/span><\/p>\n

This begs whether the United States should have invaded Afghanistan in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

This definition begs whether every expression can be put into standard form; the answer is positive and provided by this lemma.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brad Plumer, \"Two Degrees: How the World Failed on Climate Change\", Vox 4\/22\/2014: \"If you\u2019re serious about 2\u00b0C, the rates of change are so significant that it begs the way we see the world. That\u2019s what people aren\u2019t prepared to embrace,\" says Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research. \"Essentially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usage-advice","category-variation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11952,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}