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

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

  1. 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. 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…

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