Which begs the question: when are PC makers going to take their fingers off their a$$ and start producing decent hardware? (with a non Linux-restricting implementation of secure boot, KTHXBYE)
> Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question," or "impels the question," and follow that phrase with the question raised,[17] for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?"
The only time I see the old usage of begging the question referenced at all is when pedants wants to correct people for the new usage. I'm pretty confident I've never come across the original usage outside of these types of discussions.
That to me says it all bout which usage is current. And it also makes this type of pedantry all the more annoying.
In other words: Yes, it now means what he thought it means.
