@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 2 months agoWhat's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?message-square267fedilinkarrow-up1223
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•edit-21 month ago Ideate Ask (noun) Table (verb) Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 months agoTabling means to save for later. You put it in the table to deal with it another time.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-22 months agoThink of it as you’re holding a bag of groceries. You are going to put things away from the bag, but maybe some things need to go somewhere else so you pull it out of the bag and put it on the table to put it away later. You’ve tabled it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 months agoIs this different from putting it in the parking lot?
minus-squaremadjolinkfedilink4•2 months agoLets park this discussion for now, we’ll circle back to it later.
minus-squareBluulinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 months ago“That’s a big ask” drives me crazy. I’ve been hearing it everywhere lately. When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months ago When did ‘ask’ become a noun? The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoA huge ask. The biggliest ask. Sir Mixalot dreams about this ask.
minus-squarebravesirrbn ☑️linkfedilink2•edit-22 months ago The earliest known use of the noun ask is in the Old English period (pre-1150). https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 months ago Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off? Depends on if you follow the British meaning or the US American one.
Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
Tabling means to save for later. You put it in the table to deal with it another time.
So tabling it means it’s off the table?
Think of it as you’re holding a bag of groceries. You are going to put things away from the bag, but maybe some things need to go somewhere else so you pull it out of the bag and put it on the table to put it away later.
You’ve tabled it.
Is this different from putting it in the parking lot?
Yup
Lets park this discussion for now, we’ll circle back to it later.
“That’s a big ask” drives me crazy. I’ve been hearing it everywhere lately. When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.
A huge ask. The biggliest ask. Sir Mixalot dreams about this ask.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1
Depends on if you follow the British meaning or the US American one.