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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by vidarh on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:30PM (#10584094)
Give it up. In 30+ years of learning English, the only times I've ever seen it used in that sense has been when someone is being a pedant on forums and illustrating the now rapidly outmoded meaning of the phrase.
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:06PM (#10585857)
In 20+ years of learning English I've heard it used several times to refer to an obvious question or lack of information

"$noun did $verb which resulted in $result and $result is $something interest which begs the question $question."

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by conceit on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @06:50PM (#10591637)
well, your confusion of tenses kinda colors your knowledge about grammar rather questionable and i say that as a foreign speaker
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by tertius on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:20PM (#10596893)
Until it changes meaning, I cannot give it up. A curse I tell you!
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