As Luciana Berger becomes the latest arrival, the Lib Dems get caught out lying

Take a chill-pill dude.

What a pointless, and hypocritical thing to write, your grammar is terrible, and your punctuation is poor too.

1) most readers of this post would get the gist of the phrase “begs the question”.

2) you are very rude demanding that the writer educate themselves just because you do not like their choice of phraseology, particularly as it is clear from your own words, that you do not posses the necessary linguistic skills to judge.

3) you wrote – “Can you please educate yourself on the correct use of “begs the question”.”. This is grammatically incorrect, and should read ‘Can you please educate yourself ABOUT the correct usage of “begs the question” ‘.

4) you wrote – “This is not it”. This is divorced from the demand you just made due to your punctuation, and as such is meaningless. What you should have written is this ;-

‘Can you please educate yourself about the correct usage of “begs the question” ‘, this is not it. Or, ‘Can you please educate yourself about the correct usage of “begs the question” as this is not correct. There are of course other ways of expressing the same.

5) you wrote – “Perhaps use “raises the question” instead.”. – This too is divorced from the previous wording due to punctuation, and as you are not quoting someone else, “”raises the question”” should read as raises the question or ‘raises the question’.

6) you have suggested to the author of this article that they use different phrasing to that which was used, however in your wisdom and experience, you have not explained why “begs the question” is the wrong phrase to use in this context.

What is your problem with the usage of “begs the question”? Please elucidate, and help to make us all wiser.

7) you wrote “You are journalists, this is pretty basic”, so an obvious question coming up … are you a journalist, an English language teacher, or at least someone with the requisite qualifications to make such a demand?, and also, what constitutes being pretty basic? Is this something you know to be taught at a basic level in Journalism?, maybe it is ‘Journalism 101’?, if so, please enlighten us.

Personally I think you are just being a troll, or are having a bad day, and felt the need to irritably lash out , and even though my English language skills are not superlative, and open to further development, they are certainly better than yours.

However, let me be clear about this, John Ranson’s Journalistic and English language skills are better than both of ours put together, another point you seemed to miss.

This was also a grammatical error on your part, as well as a sign of poor observation, as this is not a ‘The Canary’ article, but a John Ranson article posted on The Canary, hence your “You are journalists, this is pretty basic.” comment is clearly aimed at The Canary as if The Canary is responsible for writing John Ranson’s article.

All in all, if you feel it necessary to be ultra-picky about another person’s usage of the English language (particularly as it was literally the last phrase in an entire article), make sure your own posts are scrupulously clear of mistakes, and be prepared for someone else to point out your own errors in response if you don’t.