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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] PlasticExistence 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

оκ (homograph attack edition)

[–] ripcord 6 points 5 months ago

Olle Korrekt.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

"oll korrect"

Immortalized.

[–] thenextguy 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Plum 3 points 5 months ago
[–] PP_BOY_ 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did not think Oklahoma was that popular but okay

[–] Zachariah 2 points 5 months 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 🎶

[–] errer 8 points 5 months ago
[–] pwalshj 4 points 5 months ago
[–] quinkin 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

"Yea, OKAY"

[–] Etterra 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Greee1911 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months 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.

[–] Pilferjinx 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surprised it isn't the bazillion iterations of mom.

[–] wabafee 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Eheran 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised it isn't 'fuck'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] shalafi 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dantheclamman 4 points 5 months 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 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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