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оκ (homograph attack edition)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Olle Korrekt.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

"oll korrect"

Immortalized.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"And stop saying OK all the time, okay?"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did not think Oklahoma was that popular but okay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

🎶 … where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact that there are 2 the's in this title makes me question that....

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... but then you remembered that there are 8,000 languages in the world other than English, and recalled that "ok" has been borrowed into a ton of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surprised it isn't the bazillion iterations of mom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's got a ring to it, okay? Geez.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if future societies will look back and think we pronounced it as one sound like "ock"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Since it exists in about 10 different written forms... No.

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"Yea, OKAY"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the one word I can pick out when my wife is speaking Tagalog. That and the occasional Spanish phrase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I think I've heard literally all of my international colleagues use it talking to each other. German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised it isn't 'fuck'

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Noooo I can't believe I read all of that I nées to go est ;-;