People at work use a maddening amount of jargon, and it's especially irritating when it's just a replacement for a better word. The word one is the noun "ask"—an ask is a request.
Here's a massive list of Microsoft jargon, for the interested.
I think that a lot of the entries on the list are made-up, though. Buzzword Bingo isn't Microsoft jargon, for example; it's a Dilbert reference, unless Dilbert many, many years ago was just referencing something else. But, a lot of the things on that list are terms that I hear every day, and most of them make me a sad panda.
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Yeah, a lot of those definitely aren't MS-specific.
There's that, too. But even out of the ones that are Microsoft-specific, a bunch are either not used anymore, or not used among the teams that I interact with. I interact with people on teams all throughout the company, at least when I play board games, and they don't stop speaking in jargon when it's game time.
Hush you, I'm from the land of Jargon. The lord Jargon, Sam, controlls us all.
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