I refuse to use Gmail’s autosuggested reply “Ok”.

I refuse to use Gmail’s autosuggested reply “Ok”.

Because the correct capitalization is “OK”.

This kind of “nagged by our tech into decisions we don’t really mean” issue was something I touched on in “Aspiration Value” (though in the final version of the story it got deemphasized a bit): http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/aspirationvalue.html

Originally shared by Walter Roberson

Mike Reeves-McMillan for multiple reasons

https://www.fastcompany.com/90205359/google-you-auto-complete-me

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6 responses to “I refuse to use Gmail’s autosuggested reply “Ok”.”

  1. Walter Roberson Avatar

    I thought you might want to comment on language as functional.

    While I was thinking briefly about Double Plus Ungood (the natural extension of “Why have two words when one word will do”), I realized that the Double Plus scheme fits exactly with the Five Point Likert Scale…

  2. Walter Roberson Avatar

    I thought you might want to comment on language as functional.

    While I was thinking briefly about Double Plus Ungood (the natural extension of “Why have two words when one word will do”), I realized that the Double Plus scheme fits exactly with the Five Point Likert Scale…

  3. Dave Higgins Avatar

    That’s an oK reason to not like the tool.

  4. Dave Higgins Avatar

    That’s an oK reason to not like the tool.

  5. Lar Yungmann Avatar

    I do agree Mike.

    Okay Ok is good to me.

    Exclamation- OKAY! ?

  6. Lar Yungmann Avatar

    I do agree Mike.

    Okay Ok is good to me.

    Exclamation- OKAY! ?

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