The meaning is the same without the OK. Some thing with beginning a sentence with “Uh”.
[Bugsy Malone]
Okay, see? It’s like this…
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Wow, how often does Gaudere’s law strike in the OP itself?
I’ve reread the OP (plus the title), and I’m still not sure what he’s trying to say.
:eek:
I think it’s meant to convey a sense of satisfaction to the reader that yes, the author has dissiminated the information and…
Two arrant pedants walk into a bar…
Okay…
It’s one of those things that people stick into the beginning of their sentences to inform you that they’re talking and it’s time to pay attention to them.
I knew a guy who began every single sentence with the phrase, “I mean.”
“I mean, let’s go out for coffee.”
“I mean, this project is the highest priority.”
“I mean, I spilled white-out on my new shoes!”
OK, I mean, man, that guy really pissed me off.
OK, it’s like this. I think of posts on a message board the same way I do casual conversation, ok? And it seems that, when I am talking to my friends, I do start quite a few of my sentences with “OK”, ok?
When I am at work, I don’t. OK?
Uhh, dude, you sure use the word “I” a lot.
No, not “same” thing. I have been told it has some thing to do with the habit of saying, slacker style, “Uh, ok . . .”
That’s not that bad. My mom (love her and all but…) starts off many of her sentences (not just questions) with ‘Is.’ I kid you not! I can’t even give you examples because it’s so utterly strange it boggles the mind. I try to forget. And she’s pretty intelligent, too. I guess it’s just a pause to get your brain to slow down so your mouth can catch up.
Some words are there simply because they give the sentence a nice rhythm.
At the health club I belong to, they have several TVs above the gym floor with the sound turned off, and the closed-captioning turned on. I saw an interview with someone who sprinkled every sentence with a lot of “you knows,” and the closed-captioning preserved all of them. If you think it’s annoying in speech, you should see it in print!
If I’ve done it then it’s been unconsiously, probably as an acknowledgement that I have considered what has been posted up 'til now and I’m not just barging in.
As for conversational ticks (I mean, you know) has anyone noticed “yes-no” as a sentence starter? I have a couple of friends who use it all the time, I think as a stand in for “yes but” or “yes and”. Where the heck did that come from?
Some people write in a casual conversational style, while others prefer broomstick up the bum approach to writing style.
To each, their own, OK?
I wonder how Broomstick feels about that…
Umm, so, OK dude, I mean, it’s like this…
I forgot what I was going to say.
Ok. I can play the spoon game, can you play the spoon game?
I have a friend who uses the phrase “more-less” all the freakin time. Where did she get such a phrase from??? No one else on Earth (presumably) has ever talked like this.
She says “more-less” when she means “not to mention”. And even with that, she uses it wrong. She says stuff like this all the time:
“I didn’t do a very good job, more-less meet the standards.”
Anyone ever hear this mess before?