2020-11-18
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด O – O.K.
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ออกเสียง O.K. = ‘o-KAY’ or “OH-KEY’
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ORIGIN OF OK
Initials of a facetious folk phonetic spelling, i.e.,oll or orl korrect
representing all correct,
first attested in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1839, then used in 1840 by Democrat partisans of Martin Van Buren during his election campaign,
who allegedly named their organization, the O.K. Club,
in allusion to the initials of Old Kinderhook,
Van Buren's nickname, derived from his birthplace, Kinderhook, New York
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HISTORICAL USAGE OF OK
Few Americanisms have been more successful than ok,
which survived the political campaign of 1840 that fostered it,
quickly lost its political significance,
and went on to develop use as a verb, adverb, noun, and interjection.
The expression was well known in England by the 1880s.
Today ok has achieved worldwide recognition and use.
It occurs in all but the most formal speech and writing.
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OK boomer
or ok boomer [oh-key boom-er]
WHAT DOES OK BOOMER MEAN?
OK boomer is a viral internet slangphrase used,
often in a humorous or ironic manner,
to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or closed-minded opinions
associated with the baby boomer generation and older people more generally.
WHERE DOES OK BOOMER COME FROM?
Boomer is an informal term for baby boomer,
a person born during the baby boom (sharp increase in birthrates)
after World War II.
This generation generally includes anyone born in the US between 1946–65, a time of great economic prosperity.
While many baby boomers were connected to youth counterculture in the 1960–70s, they have since become blamed in the 2010s by people in younger generations for many societal woes, fromthe high cost of college tuition to the failure to address climate change.
This blame has contributed to the negativeconnotation of boomer, which—as seen in a phrase like OK boomer—dismisses a person from that generation (and older people more generally) as out of touch, close-minded, and part of the problem.
The specific slang expression OK boomer took off in early 2019,
issued especially from millennials and Generation Z
as a reply or reaction to older users (lumped together as baby boomers) who posted content that condescended to younger generations or provoked their sensibilities.
It’s as if OK boomer says, “OK, you baby boomer. Go ahead and just keeping thinking your backwards, irrelevant thoughts that we’re just spoiled, tech-obsessed children when you’ve wrecked our job prospects and planet.”
In 2019, memes, merchandise, songs, and many social media posts
all helped further spread OK boomer.
Taylor Lorenz helped put OK boomer front and center in the internet discourse after her October 29 article in the New York Times called “‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations.” In it, Lorenz writes:
“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — and the issues that matter to them.
Lorenz’s article created a lot of buzz around the phrase OK boomer,
with some internet commentators noting how the phrase
(as is often the case for slang online) had already gotten overused.
Others, more controversially, took offense to OK boomer as ageist.
WHO USES OK BOOMER?
OK boomer can be used onlineto write off,
usually to a humorous or mildly mocking effect,
opinions that are perceived as emblematic of attitudes of boomers and older people more generally.
These attitudes include a resistance to technological change,
inclusivity of marginalized identities, denial or inaction on climate change, and a belief that the problems of youth are due to their laziness or entitlement as opposed to structural inequalities and a lack of opportunity.
True to internet culture,
OK boomer is also used more playfully or ironically in internet content (and products people can buy) about the sudden popularity of OK boomer, such as in TikTok videos that riff on OK boomer as a meme
or Twitter commentary about the OK boomer phenomenon.
Silence, boomer and shut up boomer are used similarly to OK boomer.
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Word History
The Hilarious History of 'OK'
The English language's most successful export is a joke
Here's a quiz:
let's say you're setting off to see the world
and aside from please and thank you in a smattering of languages
you pretty much only know English.
What is the one word that
most of the people you encounter will also know?
That's right. It's OK.
Yep. It's very probably the most widely recognizedword in the world.
And its originstory is literally a joke.
The definitive text on the subject is by professor Allan Metcalf,
whose OK:
The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word,
based on the research of historian Allen Walker Read,
was published in 2010.
Metcalf traces the word's birth to a bit of jocular text in an 1839 article in the Boston Morning Post
—a little jab from one newspaper editor to another, suggesting that his cohort in Providence, Rhode Island, should sponsor a party for some boisterous Boston lads who might be stopping by his town:
... he of the [Providence] Journal, and his train-band, would have the 'contributions box,' et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly…"
But let's back up for a minute and establish our setting. Newspapers in the 19th century existed before the advent of wire services, and American newspapers got most of their out-of-town news from other newspapers they exchanged copies with. The papers weren't cramped for space, and they'd also print humor, poetry, fiction, and jabs at other newspapers. The quote above is part of a humorous reply to an item reprinted from the Providence paper.
Despite plenty of space, there was an abbreviation fad in newspapers of the time that might remind one of our own time.
Perhaps a friend has sent you an electronic message containing brb, for "be right back"?
Or maybe you've assessed an article as TL;DR?
Let us present for comparison the 1839 New York newspaper report of a fashionable young woman remarking to her male friend "O.K.K.B.W.P.":
her alphabetic litany was answered with a kiss and reported to translate as "one kind kiss before we part." Take that, Internet.
The 1820s and 1830s shared another linguistic fadwith today: an appreciation for deliberate misspellings. (Kewl, rite?) This trend, which had humorists adopting now-cringey bumpkin personas with ignorance manifested in uneducated spellings, turned no go into know go and no use into know yuse (lol).
Abbreviations were not immune, and no go became K.G..
So too all right became O.W., as an abbreviation for oll wright.
And all correct became o.k., as an abbreviation for oll korrect.
Although OK became one of the more commonly used initialisms,
it might have passed into oblivion when the linguistic fad had passed
if not for the presidential election of 1840, when Martin Van Buren was given the nickname of "Old Kinderhook" becauseof his hometown of Kinderhook, NY. The Van Buren stans who joined "OK Clubs" nationwide were themselves, they proclaimed, "OK." Their campaign was memorable enough to have both popularizedthe word and to have hijacked the story of its origin: there are today still those who believe that "Old Kinderhook" is the original meaning of OK.
As OK spread (helped along by the advent of the telegraph), its origin story was a topic of muchspeculation.
"Old Kinderhook" persisted, and various linguistic ancestors from various languages were also proposed, with forebears from Latin, Greek, Scottish, French, Finnish, Anglo-Saxon via Swedish, Mandingo, and Wolof all being offered. The most persistent of these ancestors was the Choctaw word okeh. This etymon was suggested in 1885, with Andrew Jackson supposedly having borrowed the word from members of the Choctaw tribe. Woodrow Wilson was a believer: he wrote okeh on papers he approved.
He was asked why he did not use O.K. "Because it is wrong," he replied.
O.K. is of course not wrong. And speaking of "wrong," OK and okay aren't wrong either; they are the dominant forms,
though the lowercase ok is also fully established.
Although the longer okay may look like the more reputable member of the language, it's not, as we've seen, justified by etymology.
It has its supporters, though, with Louisa May Alcott being among the early adopters:
One of us must marry well. Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round. — Little Women, 1868-9
As Professor Metcalf notes in an illuminating blog post
all about the okay spelling, the 1880 edition of Little Women included neither okay nor OK, opting instead for the word cozy. Um, OK.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
OK
This may be the most universal word in existence;
it seems to have spread to most of the world” s languages.
Etymologists now generally
agree that it began as a humorous misspelling of “all correct":
“oll korrect.” “OK” without periods is the most common form in written American English now, though “okay” is notincorrect.
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O.K.
This everyday term, which may be written with or without a periods
is colloquial or business English for “all right,” “correct,” “approved.”
It is occasionally spelled okay, okeh.
Of debatable origin, O.K. is acceptable in general speech.
When used as an informal noun or verb,
no one objects to it (get his O.K., O.K. the arrangement).
Avoid the use of O.K. as an adjective (Things are not O.K. with us)
and as an adverb (The car was running O.K.).
As noun, verb, adjective, and adverb, O.K. is overused.
