Lie Down Sally

Do we confuse our pets when—instead of telling them to lie down—we use the transitive form, and tell them to ‘lay’ down, without specifying exactly what it is we want them to lay down? 

I’m still waiting to hear back from Clapton on this one.  {;-)

What's the 'ask' here?

Among the most common differences between standard English and Bizbonics is that the barrier between nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, gerunds, etc. is completely broken down.  One may have a 'visioning' process, in which a team dialogues about the asks, in order to come to a set of learnings ... or some such crap.  It just grates on the nerves to hear this distortion of clear speech.