silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square122fedilinkarrow-up1721arrow-down13
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minus-squareAngrySquirrel@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up64arrow-down7·1 day agoCan we please stop legitimizing this regime by referring to them as an “administration”?
minus-squarehuppakee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down4·1 day agoI agree, but it is a big ask from a major us news outlet.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down29·1 day 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-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-217 hours 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-squarejve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-220 hours 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-squarehuppakee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down3·1 day 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-squareGoldmage263@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·19 hours agoYou sure got a lot of downvotes for that one. Internet people like their colloquialisms.
minus-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 hours 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-squareGoldmage263@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoOh, I agree. My comment came from a place of “wow, a lot of people wanted to react.” Not a, “omg bestie soo true”
Can we please stop legitimizing this regime by referring to them as an “administration”?
maladministration
I agree, but it is a big ask from a major us news outlet.
You may think, but it’s a really a big request. ‘Ask’ is still a verb unless you’re 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.
It’s just regular English mate, also what the hell do you mean with ask not being a verb if youre selling used Lincolns??
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”