Elsewhere on DBR I noticed the following spelling: its’. There is no such word in the English language.
If it’s “it is” or “it has,” then it’s it’s. Otherwise, it’s its. No exceptions, I hope.
Whilst. I need to fit that into my verbage more instead of the boring "while".
The use of the word 'ask' as a noun is really starting to grate on me. When I was a kid the word was a verb.
Now it is generally used like this:
'That seems like a big ask.'
Yesterday I was listening to CNN on the way to work and a reporter was talking about Biden's discussion with the President of China and she said, 'There didn't seem to be any particular asks on the call.'
Really? That's what you are going with on a nationwide news broadcast?
Starting a sentence, or actually it’s starting a paragraph, a speech , or an answer to a question, with the word “so.”
Starting with “so” implies something has come before. That you’re continuing a thought or idea you’ve already begun to discuss. Without that having come before, starting to speak with “so” is like you’re starting in the middle, or at least it sounds like you are.
It’s a relatively new thing, and it grates.