Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dboreham on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:06PM (#12703622)

Off-topic pet peeve but why is "OK" now apparently spelled "okay" these days? (especially in bandwidth-limited situations such as SMS or IM). OK is not short for "Okay", OK?

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:02PM (#12704435)

"These days"? It's been spelled that way for nearly 100 years.

> Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=okay

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by scott_s on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:16PM (#12704103)

I think "okay" looks better than "OK".

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dboreham on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:45PM (#12704326)

But it is ...wrong. OK originated as an abbreviation so why spell out the pronunciation of the letters? Makes no sense to me.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:05PM (#12704468)

Because the connection to a 180-year-old fad for misspelling "all correct" is so obscure and non-obvious that it was lost long ago? Do you think we should be capitalizing LASER, too?

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by nl on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:03PM (#12703999)

It has always been an alternative spelling.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:04PM (#12704449)

Not so; as you can see in my other comment's link, we can cite OK about 90 years before we can cite "okay", and more reliably than that we can cite the alternative spelling "okeh" to 1919, which establishes pretty well that "okay" was not standard then.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dijit on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:01AM (#12707751)

by talking about this you've wasted all the bandwidth your two bytes would have saved a year.

As far as I understand this has been common vernacular since before my lifetime, I'm not usually one to welcome evolution of the base language but this one is before our lives we need to let it be.

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