The phrase "ask thank" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression and cannot be used in any context.
Example: "I would like to ask thank you for your help" is incorrect.
Alternatives: "ask for gratitude" or "request thanks".
They're people who'd like to keep the world running exactly as it is now, no tricky questions asked, thank you.
What brand of digital camera, you ask? Thanks to today's Marca, we now know it was a Nikon.
'Regular' language-games, such as the astonishing list provided in PI 23 (which includes, e.g., reporting an event, speculating about an event, forming and testing a hypothesis, making up a story, reading it, play-acting, singing catches, guessing riddles, making a joke, translating, asking, thanking, and so on), bring out the openness of our possibilities in using language and in describing it.
So, in all seriousness, I'll now nicely ask AOL: thank you sir, may we have another?
He provided some examples of language games: "Asking, thanking, greeting, cursing, praying".
("Any veterans in this room here today?" he asked. "Thank you for your service").
Jon asks; No, thank you, Ramsay replies, and Hello, Sansa, my dear wife.
During a family gathering, the children were asked to thank God for all their blessings.
Listeners are asked to thank Representatives Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa, and Lane Evans, Democrat of Illinois, for supporting higher standards on arsenic in drinking water.
Harvey Thomas, who cultivated celebrities on her behalf, particulary asked for thank you letters to be sent to BBC figures including DJ Pete Murray and sports commentators Peter Lorenzo and Ron Pickering – all "staunch Conservatives" – for their help in opening doors to the likes of Bobby Moore, Barbara Windsor and Petula Clark.
