Akshat Rathi: At the end of a longish conversation on WhatsApp, my dad writes "Okay." with that stop. He means nothing but ok. He's done it so many times. But it breaks the convention of every other WhatsApp chat ending. So I still have to ask myself every time: "I didn't anger him, right?"

At the end of a longish conversation on WhatsApp, my dad writes "Okay." with that stop. He means nothing but ok. He's done it so many times. But it breaks the convention of every other WhatsApp chat ending. So I still have to ask myself every time: "I didn't anger him, right?"

Makes me wonder what kind of confusion through inadvertent digital faux pas I'm going to be inflicting on my own kids in 10-15 years

When I write 'okay' it's because the spell checker substitutes it for 'ok' & I can't be bothered to argue. I use 'that stop' to say that I've finished and haven't hit send early or goofed in some other ga-ga Oh Dad! way. Maybe you're phone & he's laptop and I'm a grammar nerd.

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