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Originally Posted by Phogg
However, the fact that one can not with anything like a strait face try to make the entreaties not match the dictionary definitions of begging and pleading ... DOES make it beggging and pleading.
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What dictionary might that be? What Wikipedia does isn't begging. Beggars don't offer anything in exchange. Wikipedia does. They provide a service that millions of people use, and pay for it with donations. Just because some people don't like Wikipedia's requests for donations doesn't make it begging. Only by equivocating can you call it begging.