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In Japan they have the abbreviation “NG” (“not good”) that’s often used as the opposite of “OK”. I always liked how, when I worked for a Japanese machine learni
by Kootle 1mo ago
In Japan they have the abbreviation “NG” (“not good”) that’s often used as the opposite of “OK”. I always liked how, when I worked for a Japanese machine learning company, classifiers would be between “OK” and “NG”. Maybe semantically “okay” and “not good” are not great opposites, but I always liked how having textual alignment makes the contrast immediately obvious
- kqp 1mo agoSeems like “not okay” would be the cleanest antonym. I can’t see anything that could go wrong with using it. > Meeting at 4 pm today? > NO
- lou1306 1mo agoNorway (Yes this is a YAML pun)
- lloeki 1mo agoLog levels have me screaming internally https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.0/libdoc/logger/rdoc/Logger.html https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.0/libdoc/logger/rdoc/Logger....
- seszett 1mo agoIt's not unusual in France to use OK and KO. I never liked it much because it's too easy to confuse and no semantically a good opposite either, but visually it does look very balanced.
- andrelaszlo 1mo agoIs it because KO and chaos are both pronounced /ka.o/?
- seszett 1mo agoI've always just understood it as in knockout, chaos wouldn't fit in the way OK and KO are used (as predicate adjectives, if I understand English grammar classes correctly) but it is part of why some people like to use "KO", I'm not sure.
- 1718627440 1mo agoWhat does KO stand for?
- drfloyd51 1mo agoKorrect Oll
- 1718627440 1mo agoAnd that is french and means the opposite of OK?
- enneff 1mo agoWhat does OK stand for?
- adolph 1mo agoThe origin of OK is disputed; however, most modern reference works hold that it originated around Boston as part of a fad in the late 1830s of abbreviating misspellings – that it is an initialism of "oll korrect" as a misspelling of "all correct". This origin was first described by linguist Allen Walker Read in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK
- slazaro 1mo agoI've seen it a lot in Spain as well. I guess it's a combination of just being the reverse of OK, and also "KO" meaning "knocked out" just feels like the opposite of OK.
- Diti 1mo ago“SUCCÈS” and “ERREUR” work too.
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- _whiteCaps_ 1mo agoIs this not common outside of Japan? I've often seen this used here in Canada. Sometimes as NFG after a particularly bad day.