... 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@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Surprised it isn't the bazillion iterations of mom.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Taxi does work

Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why is it in Latin

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

taxa, charge

Neat

Lyre@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Eheran@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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

Etterra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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

wabafee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Okay

0ops@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm surprised it isn't 'fuck'

fuzzzerd@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y

OK.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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

Binette@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

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