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QUESTION / REQUEST / REQUIREMENT -- all nouns. Not "Ask". "Ask" is a verb.

• aswegs8 4mo ago
  Ask is a noun
  • gjvc 4mo ago
    and you are a fool
    • aswegs8 4mo ago
      no, u ask noun [ C usually singular ] uk/ɑːsk/ us /æsk/ ask noun [C usually singular] (REQUEST) the act of asking someone to do something or give you something such as money: The message came with "an ask", meaning users were asked to do something upon receiving it. make the ask He was an aggressive fundraiser who worked the phones fanatically and had no hesitation about making the ask.
• jeremyjh 4mo ago
  "The Ask" is in widespread usage as a noun.
  • gjvc 4mo ago
    that does not in any way make it correct
    • jeremyjh 4mo ago
      That is absolutely the only requirement for it to be correct. Words are defined by the way people use them, and that can change over time. A dictionary is a record, not a rulebook.
      • electrondood 4mo ago
        It's only a certain subset of the population that speaks like this. It's pompous and ridiculous. Are the two syllables in the word "request" one too many for people working in Product?
        • jeremyjh 4mo ago
          Most people only use a subset of language, and a lot of language is used only by a small subset of people. "The Ask" is in mainstream usage - or at least known to - the target audience of TFA, which may not include you.
      • gjvc 4mo ago
        are you high / in wonderland? “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/alice/glass06.htm http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/alice/glass06.htm
        • jeremyjh 4mo ago
          Are you educated? Descriptivism is overwhelmingly the mainstream view or practice of language scholars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description
          • gjvc 4mo ago
            liberal
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• greekrich92 4mo ago
  The nouning of verbs is a very annoying type of corpo speak
  • throw0101c 4mo ago
    “Verbing weirds language.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25