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OK/okay/ok

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After changing it back and forth several times and consulting with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, I settled on "ok" in my book How To, but I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should just switch to "oK."
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yaomtc
1781 days ago
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[Commented on the wrong thing and I can't delete]
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davidar
1782 days ago
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okies - also kind of old but in a different way
mburch42
1783 days ago
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Sometimes in older books they spell it "okeh" which is really wild.
alt_text_bot
1783 days ago
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After changing it back and forth several times and consulting with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, I settled on "ok" in my book How To, but I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should just switch to "oK."
yaomtc
1783 days ago
Who runs this bot? Quote marks haven't worked for a while.
joeythesaint
1783 days ago
Check your font encoding and browser settings. Quote marks seem fine here: https://imgur.com/3j3YNk6
tedder
1783 days ago
They fail on the Android app.
yaomtc
1783 days ago
Correct, I should have specified. They work fine on desktop, just not on the Android app. Maybe it's just an issue with the app rendering certain characters in comments. I may post an issue on the Github. ("Test.") EDIT: My quotation marks work fine, as do the quotes in mburch42's comment. I guess the Android app handles comments differently, as the HTML of joeythesaint's link becomes visible.
tedder
1783 days ago
Agree, AltTextBot's are the only broken ones on Android. All look correct on iOS and on a desktop browser. I think the 'bot is sending quot entity versus the actual quotes and it happens to render wrong on Android (though this theory doesn't follow Occam, which would blame the Android app).
Aissen
1782 days ago
@yaomtc @tedder I run the bot. Thanks for the report, I'll check it out. EDIT: it should now be fixed for future alt texts.
yaomtc
1781 days ago
Thanks, Aissen! I created an issue: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/1272

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500

Eat it, nerd!

I may or may not have been updating a little irresponsibly over the past few weeks because I was so excited to share these pages with you. Now that the interlude is half over, the update schedule’s going to switch to Sundays and Wednesdays for a while. Thank you so much for reading!

 

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yaomtc
3860 days ago
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This page is just too cute. A great 500th!
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A Wish to Whistle

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A Wish to Whistle

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yaomtc
3862 days ago
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A shark-man can whistle. A beartato cannot.
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iaravps
3862 days ago
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ALT-text: You know how to whistle, don't you, Beartato? You just put your lips together and go 'PHHHHGHBHBBHBBBBBBHHBHTTTTTTTT'
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
satadru
3862 days ago
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GPOY.
New York, NY