These hard-line BTQ enforcers go around desecrating any blog that uses the common meaning of "beg the question." If it "passes over or ignores a question by assuming it to be established," which, at least to some degree, the statement about the grass walls does to the question of how they are mowed, it begs the question, according to Webster's. Stand firm about punctuation, but let usage and grammar change and flow--it's what makes language beautiful. Do not cave to the demands of the prescriptivists, I *beg* you.