Comment on Conditional Action ProgrammerparentComments−slazaro10yIt might sound weird to you, but it's correct.Nounask (plural asks) 1. An act or instance of asking. 2. Something asked or asked for; a request. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask−userbinator10yMore information here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4246/can-or-shoul...Personally I never use it because it can sound far too close to "ass" especially through low-fidelity channels.−morgante10yAccording to that link, it's been part of "Microsoft-speak" for over a decade.It's definitely a noun, but the kind of noun that only annoying business people use.−nutheracc10yNow try to find it in a real dictionary.−Sacho10yHere's oxford dictionaries on the word: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ask[WITH ADJECTIVE] informal A demand or situation that requires a specified degree of effort or commitment:it is a big ask for him to go and play 90 minutesit was a tough ask, but they deliveredOr OED: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/11505?rskey=xAEeZD&result=1#ei...Westm. Papers 1 Nov. 107 Who has not suffered when he has played correctly second hand..from his partner assuming that there has been an ask for trumps?2014 D. Chapman Ascendant lxxiii. 301 A plane? Full of people?.. That is an enormous ask.
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It might sound weird to you, but it's correct.
Noun
ask (plural asks)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/askMore information here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4246/can-or-shoul...
Personally I never use it because it can sound far too close to "ass" especially through low-fidelity channels.
According to that link, it's been part of "Microsoft-speak" for over a decade.
It's definitely a noun, but the kind of noun that only annoying business people use.
Now try to find it in a real dictionary.
Here's oxford dictionaries on the word: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ask
Or OED: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/11505?rskey=xAEeZD&result=1#ei...