another head-scratcher

[Wilson Gray]

I'd like to thank Dan et al. I was hoping that someone would "put the
sprechen on" me, as we used to say, when I was stationed in Germany.

-Wilson


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I know "ask" and "make the ask" from non-profit fundraising. The reason for
> the word to exist is to overcome the reluctance of polite people to talk
> about money. The "ask" is the conversation about money -- about a specific
> amount of money.
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> Asking someone to donate money is a request.
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> Asking someone to donate $100 is an "ask".
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> I believe the phrase is also used in other contexts, like salary
> negotiations.
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> DanG
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> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > Bopp parsed two court rulings, one of them on a case he brought. By
>> > his reading, and contrary to past law, it's OK for a federal candidate
>> > to call up a CEO and make the ask. "I can read the law," he says, "and
>> > I felt confident that what we were doing was well within the
>> > strictures of the law."
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>> "Make the ask"? New one for me. It keeps going.
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>> > Within the law, because the ask wouldn't be for the candidate's own
>> > campaign committee -- it would be on behalf of an independent group
>> > called a superPAC, which would then spend the money in support of the
>> > candidate.
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>> I guess, "request" was unavailable for comment.
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>> Â  Â  VS-)
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