{"id":439,"date":"2004-08-11T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/11\/its-a-big-ask\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T05:05:08","slug":"its-a-big-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/11\/its-a-big-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a big ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a401'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/\">Language Log<\/a><br \/>\n talks about the usage of ask as a noun.  I didn&#8217;t realize that ask<br \/>\n could be used as a noun myself.   It feels weird to hear it but supposedly<br \/>\n Kerry used it in a speech during a campaign in Missouri.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Here&#8217;s the excerpt:\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n I&#8217;m asking you to trust our nation, our history, the world, your families, in my hands. And I understand that it&#8217;s a big ask. And it&#8217;s a tough judgment you have to make.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001331.html#more\">Language Log Post<\/a> yourself for why this might be just a<br \/>\n case of variation and not incorrect usage\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Log talks about the usage of ask as a noun. I didn&#8217;t realize that ask could be used as a noun myself. It feels weird to hear it but supposedly Kerry used it in a speech during a campaign in Missouri. Here&#8217;s the excerpt: I&#8217;m asking you to trust our nation, our history, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}