LOL! Fixed it and saved type in the process.
Seriously, though, I didn't even realize I punctuated my sentences with OK like a longshoreman does with the f--- word. It came to my attention when I got a part-time job teaching English in Japan back in 1988. My family was still stateside at the time awaiting visas and transportation over. I needed something to fill evenings and weekends and these jobs were fairly easy to come by back then, especially if you spoke fairly passable Japanese, which I did.
So next thing I know, my classes are fairly full and the students are saying "OK" every few words. I resolved then and there to get rid of that speech habit and have never gone back.
I think it was kind of like parents who gave up smoking cold turkey when they discovered their kids were mimicking them.
I have listened to young people, teens and early 20’s who use “like” so often that it is difficult to know what the f... they are talking about. Some people rely on the f... word too much as well.
Many years ago I worked in an environment that was basically cubicles without walls.
Whenever one of our co-workers got on the phone, another co-worker and I would pull out a stack of $1 bills and proceed to place bets on how many times he would say certain words or phrases.
After a few weeks of him seeing us pass dollar bills back and forth, he finally asked us what we were doing.
This cured him of saying things like “Okie-Dokie” and “You Know”.
Very funny.