In
conversation, while asking a question, the asker also makes a suggestion; thus letting the person being asked know what a possible (and probably desirable) answer should be. Usually accompanied by a slight rising of the voice during the suggestion part of the question.
Developed in the mid 1980s in the
Los Angeles area event production/catering industry. When asking a client about how he or she may want a job to be completed, we'd include a suggestion in the question.
Could you please suggask the client if the we can setup
in the garage?
Make a suggasktion about how it should be done.
Examples of suggastions:
At a small catered affair - simple, direct form: "Mrs. Smith, would you like the buffet on the kitchen island?"
More aggressive form where the less desirable option is spoken first in a lower register, and the more desirable answer finishes the sentence in an
upper register: "(lower register) Does Mr. Greenberg want us to serve guests as the actually enter the gate (
upper register), or shall we wait until they've arrived to the grand lawn where there is more space to mingle?"