Why did I change the blog title?

The constant nagging in my head about the title of the blog "Which Begs The Question" finally prompted me to verify the grammar first hand. Wouldn't you know it, I was justified in my minor annoyance.

Which raises the question...?

"Why did I change the blog title?"

The phrase which begs the question is so over used and frankly a bit pretentious sounding. So much so that I decided to look at the possibility of it being grammatically incorrect. Lets take the base of the phrase "Which

 begs 'THE' question. So is it begging the question? Is the begging of the question before or post question? How dose one 'Beg" a question? How is 'beg' intended to imply?

Well much to my shock I simply googled it and found a metric fuck ton of info on how I was using it improperly! about 1,220,000 matches on grammar misuses of my beloved ex blog title. I knew it seemed off but I didn't know exactly how.

"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place.  http://begthequestion.info/

"For example, let's say Squiggly is trying to convince Aardvark that chocolate is healthful, and his argument is that chocolate grows on trees, so it must be healthful. Aardvark could rightly say there's no proof that something is good for you simply because it grows on a tree. Some things that grow on trees are poisonous--Chinaberry tree fruit, for example. So Squiggly's argument is based on a faulty premise." -Grammar Girl

For more of an etymology/historical view

"In 350 BCE, Aristotle originally described a logical problem where a person uses a conclusion to make an argument."

 "Aristotle's Greek was later translated into the Latin, petitio principii."

"And in the year 1581, the Latin phrase was re translated into English as begs the question."

-Grammar Grater With Luke Taylor

I even learned that this is so common and such a well known 'logical fallacy" that their was even an April fools prank played on the people who are grammar Nazi's. "DOWN WITH BTQ!" was a April fools prank, http://begthequestion.info was actually requesting a march on to Washington in protest of people who use this phrase improperly.

So in summation..

I done talk gooder than this and I reckon this blog on this her interweb should represent me as a cunning linguist that's why I up and quickly shit canned the old blog title... I reckon.  -Me