SCAMP, the ugly dog

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/9/06, Charly Baker <cmb-h7HJ8Pof2EbbR28j2ZUwYgC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > This actually begs the question of:
>
> No it doesn't.  It raises the question.  "Begs the question" means an entirely
> different thing to people who are fussy about language and thought.

Thank you.

It *raises* such questions as:
 a) How many stores are there, in total?  (Answer: ~31000)

 based on a), we might then wonder such things as:
 - How many of those 31K are in the US?  Would that be materially
different from 12K???

 - Would the contract relate to merely company-owned outlets, with
franchises being separate?  That could *readily* explain the
difference between 4K and 12K...

Of course, perhaps all of the above is irrelevant in that it distracts
people from their prefererred activities of being fussy about
language...
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