I've found it's often impossible to get keyboards like Swiftkey to stop autocorrecting "ok" to "OK". It's so irritating because while grammatically correct, it makes me look like a boomer in text conversations.
Lighten up, old thing. Miri Webs says its all gravy.
You bother with your shift key and putting quotes around pertinent terms in HN comments. Hence, I'll deduce that you do care about grammar and presentation when random strangers from another country get to read it and comment. However, I'm also sure that you (and so do I) prefer a more relaxed presentation when dealing with your mates.
If the recipients know you then they know you! If not: who gives a shit?
I've noticed this too but I just use the word 'okay' anyway. I mean, I'm not saying 'ock', I'm saying 'oh kay', so why shouldn't the spelling reflect that?
just because historically OK was meant to be neutral, it has clearly evolved/morphed into a very non-neutral usage. I don't think a teenager today can say ok without their eyes rolling to the back of their head in a very non-neutral meaning. which is what I'm assuming you're referring to the of 'k' to be?
i like to confuse people by switching from 'k', 'ok', 'okay' within the same chat
maybe I'm biased here as a millennial or using it differently than teenagers today, but my feeling is, with "ok" at least you can use it neutrally, even if it's also used for sarcastic eye rolling. At least you can see it in both contexts.
Whereas I haven't ever seen "k" in a neutral context. Seems to me, this one is overwhelmingly used for sarcasm or awkwardness, so I think it carries a stronger message of disapproval than "ok"
...and then there is "kk" which is the exact opposite of "k" and is basically an extra-chill "ok".
I'm absolutely out of the loop as a Gen Xer without kids... but my wife and I text each other "k" a lot. It doesn't have to be an insult. Context above all.
The finest slang of this generation - is it even current anymore? - is "yeet". A word that you can know the meaning of purely from context. We never had anything that rad (heh, heh) back in the 80s.
As a perhaps lazy typing xennial, I use 'k' all the time at work to mean 'ack' or 'yes', context depending. It never occurred to me people could be interpreting differently based on age.
