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Monday, 7 February 2005
Cow-orker Lexicon

That's okay (ðæts o'keI) - interjection, roughly equivalent to "I shall now attempt to top the story or anecdote you have just told."

Posted by godfrey (link)
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Yeah, what is with that? It is equally interchangeable with "That's nothing..."
I try to make it a point that when I hear someone say that to another after a story, I interject "No it's not. No matter what you did."
Posted by the_lunchbox on 7 Feb 2005 19:32
Heh.

I'd get irritated, but it's almost funny. I'm tempted to make up a flash card reading "That's okay", and have it ready to hold up when the words are uttered. Kind of like the time a Canadian friend of mine insisted she never said "eh", and I repeated it every time she said it. Eventually I stopped because she hit me whenever I did it. (Who says Canadians are pacifists?)

What's is funny, though, is the chatterboxes who complain that other cow-orkers talk too much.

Posted by Godfrey on 7 Feb 2005 20:24
A million bonus points for using IPA in a blog! Well done!
Posted by Meredith on 18 Feb 2005 18:58