what is ases short for?
if someone says to me 'que ases' what are they asking me?
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They are asking you "¿Qué haces?"
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just a small addition to Gekkosan's good answer: i believe that this spelling form of haces -- though technically incorrect as he points out -- is seen most frequently in instant messaging (IM), forums, and IRC (internet relay chat), where people like to use more "fonetic" spellings (even if that phonetic spelling is from english sounds, not spanish), just to be cute or cool.. 
another example is when someone on IRC joins a chat room and another friend recognizes them and greets them with, "wenas" or even "nas" for short.. as native speakers of spanish they know quite well they should be saying, "buenas tardes" but they shorten it for fun / brevity, and spell it more phonetically at the same time.
for this reason you may be just as likely to see "k ases"..
que haces in spanis is often use in an informal way when u approach someone and aks that even if they actually are not doing a hands on the job work,,,is like saying whats up? que haces? que onda?
look it up inthe online dictionary part 
