There's apparently a huge controversy about the White House talking to the NEA. I'm not that interested, so I just skimmed the article , but something kept driving me crazy. Quotes from the transcript:

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“We’re going to come at you with some specific asks here.”

and then later...

“My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative community’s utilities and bring them to the table.”
The actual issue aside, it is appalling to me that people can be high up in government (these are "asks" that the White House people had for the NEA people) and not know basic English grammar! dizzy I'm not talking semi-colons here, just basic parts of speech.

Is there a universe somewhere where "some specific asks" makes sense? It's not even easy to say! Where's the emoticon for tearing your hair out? wallbash

PJ

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