Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Ok

Ho notato che OK viene usato nell'inglese parlato anche per esprimere
semplicemente che si sta ascoltando e seguendo il discorso, senza
necessariamente voler significare una particolare approvazione o
consenso.
Per esempio
A: "What do you do?"
B: "I am a nurse at St. James's hospital and ... bla bla bla."
A: "Ok."

Enrico C ha scritto:
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It's also often used in conversation as a question "Ok?" to ensure that the 
listener is following you.
A: The whole room filled with water up to our knees.
B: Why didn't it drain out the door?
A: The door was closed, OK? Not only that, it was water-tight, OK?.
-- 
This is my opinion of modern, colloquial, American English. 
If you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.

 A: "Ok."
i think in this case the person A doesn't care nothing of B is saying...
Does I make any miskakes? 

apo ha scritto:
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Yes, you does. :) Where have you been hanging out lately, Brooklyn? :)
I think in this case Person A doesn't care (at all) about what B is
saying...
Have I made (OR: Did I make) any mistakes?
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B: On Saturday I wait at table at St James restaurant, so I never have * to
change out of my uniform.
* I considered writing "I don't ever have to change...". Would it have been
wrong, or different?
Bye, FB
-- 
"Suppose I say I'm not interested."
"Does five hundred dollars interest you?"
"Very much."
"Then bring it: it's an expensive restaurant".
(The Cheap Detective)

 Bye, FB
Neither wrong, nor different. Huzzah!
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 A: "Ok."
(Please excuse the creative spelling)
Oh! Ky! (I don't believe you)
ohh-Kay! (That's good news!)
Okaaaaaayyyy (Will you stop talking already?)
ok (I'm really not interested, I just asked to make conversation) 

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What about "ogay"?
Bye, FB
-- 
Locked from the inside. That can only mean one thing, and I don't know what
it is.
(Murder by Death)

 What about "ogay"?
Uh huh.
ogay (I'm not really listening) 

 Where have you been hanging out lately, Brooklyn? :)
really? in brooklyn do people speak like this?

 really? in brooklyn do people speak like this?
Somewhat (but it's also partly because folks from Manhattan like to make
fun of folks from the other Boroughs.)
But dey do tawk like dis.
(But they do talk like this.)
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 (But they do talk like this.)
What accent does Peter Falk have in our favourite films *?
* "Dat was den, dis is now, an' no-one knows what tomorrow wuh be. Dat's de
way tings are...".
Bye, FB
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Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

 Bye, FB
I'd place him in Brooklyn, Queens or the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Certainly NOT Murray Hill!  ;-p
(Soitanly not!)
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Oh-kay!
(carry on, you sound a weirdo but I can stand it! ;)

 (carry on, you sound a weirdo but I can stand it! ;)
The secretary of my neighborhood association consistently says "o-KAY"
which makes it sound like she's humoring you, just waiting for you to go
away. :)
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 (carry on, you sound a weirdo but I can stand it! ;)
As long as I don't seem a weirdo, or sound like a weirdo, I'm content to 
sound a weirdo if I can ever have one imported from Australia. (It is an 
aboriginal musical instrument, isn't it?) 

 aboriginal musical instrument, isn't it?)
The weirdo? An instrument? I only know the didgeridoo, never heard of an
instrument called weird.
Hell, since once can play dumb I guess it's possible to play weirdo too. ;D
I am beginning to think there's a joke I didn't get... and I don't like
when it happens. :/
Sebastiano

 when it happens. :/
There's no real joke to speak of, and there is no such instrument. It was 
just a roundabout way of saying that you typically say 'seem a weirdo' or 
'sound like a weirdo' but you 'sound a trumpet' (And no tromba jokes 
please.)

(And no tromba jokes please.)
Damn.
Sebastiano

 ;-)
Ahhhh, don't get me started on that! :)
Sebastiano

 aboriginal musical instrument, isn't it?)
Actually I meant "sound like". I stand corrected!