ask, n.

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Arnold Zwicky has written cogently about "My ask" on the Language Log
website here:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=340

Garson

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How could you resist a blurb like that?
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> JL
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> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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>> The opening sentence of a (quite favorable) NYT book review by Lydia =
>> Millet on Sam Lipsyte's 2010 book "The Ask", at
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Millet-t.html--
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>> Sam Lipsyte=92s third novel, =93The Ask,=94 is a dark and jaded beast =97 =
>> the sort of book that, if it were an animal, would be a lumbering, =
>> hairy, crypto=ADzoological ape-man with a near-crippling case of =
>> elephantiasis.
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>> But no, I haven't read the book.
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>> LH
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>> On Sep 24, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> > I may have mentioned this increasingly common TV-news type item =
>> before.
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>> > The headline on the Yahoo! home page is "Obama's ask of Middle East."
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>> > The word isn't repeated in the accompanying story, which uses the verb
>> > "implore."
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>> > So the headline could have said "Obama's plea to Middle East," but =
>> "ask" is
>> > shorter and maybe less wimplisitic.
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>> > JL
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>> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the =
>> truth."
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