[WAYYY OT] Begs the question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 21:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > 1) Does this look like an error?
> > 2) How do I do this?
> 
> When viewed as single sentences what you've said makes sense. 
> 
> However, when viewed as part of a larger piece of work the sentence
> "This looks like an error?" may indeed be just fine and dandy.   It
> would be a shorten form of "This looks like an error to you?" where
> the
> "to you" is implied by the broader context of the larger work.

My examples were short in order to make a point, but of course one of
the delights of English is the huge variety of expression. There's
almost nothing that can't be placed in a context where it can be
construed to mean something (rather like Perl :-)

poc