I’m definitely one of these “language is fluid, too bad for you” sorts of people, but I also often get itchy when business-y language spreads.

Which is a long way of saying that I understand the way that folks use “ask” and “requests” interchangeably…but still hate it.

@jw Same! “Ask” still gets me, but I’m coming to peace with it.

@jw In my experience, 80% of people who use ask as a noun are bloviating asshats.

Still, this is anecdotal data. More research is required. 😉

@Cheri hahaha

I heard one of my awesome coworkers use it today; I think when you end up doing a lot of fundraising or project managing, it becomes a thing.

@Cheri One have to ask… 😇

@Cheri And what’s with media “reaching out”?

@jw I can see how it would become a thing in fundraising!

@jw @cheri “Ask” as a noun is a funny one. “Request” is also a verb, and I wonder if it got nouned a long time ago. 😇

We use “ask” a lot in fundraising, and to my ears it sounds more straightforward than request. But definitely jargony...

@macgenie For fundraising important causes, I’ll support whatever language works, no matter how jargony. 🙂

@jw @Cheri @ReaderJohn @macgenie Hey fam I'm busy atm can we park this exchange for later. TGIF amirite lol ~

cc: @JohnPhilpin don't forget the content output my guy ;-)

@macgenie @cheri @jw I, too, am a "language is fluid" sort of person. That said, I don’ mind "ask" as a noun, although I will never ever use it that way myself. 😂 What does bug me a little is people who argue both sides of the language fluidity debate—i.e., “certain words have crossed a threshold to be used differently than in the past, but other ones never will”. 😱🤯😂

@Cheri it’s worse - they aren’t ACQUIRING they are RENTING

@simonwoods thanks for the heads up to the thread ... content is but one in the ‘language’ pillar of People First

@jw

Funny was writing about ‘Garbage Language’ just the other day:

Here

// @cheri @simonwoods

@jw

Funny was writing about ‘Garbage Language’ just the other day:

Here

// @cheri @simonwoods

@JohnPhilpin Yes!