return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhat's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?message-squaremessage-square265linkfedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-213 hours ago Ideate Ask (noun) Table (verb) Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days ago Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off? Depends on if you follow the British meaning or the US American one.
minus-squareBluuTato@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days ago“That’s a big ask” drives me crazy. I’ve been hearing it everywhere lately. When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
minus-squarebravesirrbn ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days ago The earliest known use of the noun ask is in the Old English period (pre-1150). https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoA huge ask. The biggliest ask. Sir Mixalot dreams about this ask.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago When did ‘ask’ become a noun? The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.
minus-squareWindyRebel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoTabling means to save for later. You put it in the table to deal with it another time.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoSo tabling it means it’s off the table?
minus-squareWindyRebel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoThink of it as you’re holding a bag of groceries. You are going to put things away from the bag, but maybe some things need to go somewhere else so you pull it out of the bag and put it on the table to put it away later. You’ve tabled it.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoIs this different from putting it in the parking lot?
minus-squaremadjo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoLets park this discussion for now, we’ll circle back to it later.
Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
Depends on if you follow the British meaning or the US American one.
“That’s a big ask” drives me crazy. I’ve been hearing it everywhere lately. When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1
A huge ask. The biggliest ask. Sir Mixalot dreams about this ask.
The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.
Tabling means to save for later. You put it in the table to deal with it another time.
So tabling it means it’s off the table?
Think of it as you’re holding a bag of groceries. You are going to put things away from the bag, but maybe some things need to go somewhere else so you pull it out of the bag and put it on the table to put it away later.
You’ve tabled it.
Is this different from putting it in the parking lot?
Lets park this discussion for now, we’ll circle back to it later.
Yup