@silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 29 days agoTrump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1816arrow-down14
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minus-square@corsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish-26•29 days ago a big ask You may think, but it’s a really a big request. ‘Ask’ is still a verb unless you’re selling used Lincolns.
minus-square@huppakee@lemm.eelinkfedilink11•29 days agoIt’s just regular English mate, also what the hell do you mean with ask not being a verb if youre selling used Lincolns??
minus-squarePup BirulinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-229 days agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ask ask noun [C usually singular] (REQUEST) … something that someone is asked or expected to do, usually when this will be difficult: big ask To refinance that amount of debt is a big ask in an environment where credit is tight. He recognizes that a successful title defence is a major ask. It would be quite an ask for him to switch sides at such short notice.
minus-square@jve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•edit-229 days ago You may think, but it’s a really a big request. ‘Ask’ is still a verb unless you’re selling used Lincolns. Honestly, it just makes sense that the grammar nazis that would pipe up in a post like this would be imbeciles.
minus-square@Goldmage263@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink-2•29 days agoYou sure got a lot of downvotes for that one. Internet people like their colloquialisms.
minus-squarePup BirulinkfedilinkEnglish4•29 days agothey’re getting downvotes because they’re calling someone out on grammar issues while being completely and verifiably wrong in not only the technical, but also the colloquial sense
minus-square@Goldmage263@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink2•29 days agoOh, I agree. My comment came from a place of “wow, a lot of people wanted to react.” Not a, “omg bestie soo true”
You may think, but it’s a really a big request. ‘Ask’ is still a verb unless you’re selling used Lincolns.
It’s just regular English mate, also what the hell do you mean with ask not being a verb if youre selling used Lincolns??
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ask
Honestly, it just makes sense that the grammar nazis that would pipe up in a post like this would be imbeciles.
You sure got a lot of downvotes for that one. Internet people like their colloquialisms.
they’re getting downvotes because they’re calling someone out on grammar issues while being completely and verifiably wrong in not only the technical, but also the colloquial sense
Oh, I agree. My comment came from a place of “wow, a lot of people wanted to react.” Not a, “omg bestie soo true”