Send him an SMS, okay?

[englishhobby]

Does the following request sound natural with 'okay'?
Send him an SMS, okay?

Can we sometimes use 'okay' in place of 'please'?

 

[Tdol]

It works for me.

 

[Skrej]

Can we sometimes use 'okay' in place of 'please'?

I agree with Tdol that your example is acceptable, but I don't think I'd necessarily consider your usage of 'okay' as a replacement for the word 'please'. It could be, especially when spoken with a pleading tone, but it could just as easily be read as some kind of tag or interjection.

Regardless, it is widely used and commonly heard.

 

[emsr2d2]

I wouldn't take it as a replacement for "please" either. I would assume that "Send him an SMS" was an imperative, with the "OK?" as something of an afterthought, meaning "Do you understand?" or even "You will do what I say, won't you?"

 

[Tdol]

I'm old-fashioned. I prefer a request to contain the word 'please'. I would never use 'OK' as an alternative to 'please'.

Dumbing down, mutter, younger generation, mumble, it wasn't like it in my day, grumble, I blame it on the pill, moan, no manners.

You saying I ain't got no manners, y'old git? :-D

 

[GoesStation]

You forgot to complain that they don't make things like they used to. I always add "and they never did!"

 

[emsr2d2]

Ahhh, nostalgia's not what it used to be! ;-)

 

[Tdol]

It's been a long time since I heard the pill being blamed for society's ills.

 

[Rover_KE]

I anticipate thousands of our punters asking 'What pill?'

 

[Tdol]

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

Philip Larkin

 

[SoothingDave]

You forgot about fluoride in the water.

 

[GoesStation]

I suppose it's no coincidence that the pill and the H-bomb were invented in the same decade.

 

[Barb_D]

I have a couple corsets. And somewhere I have a fountain pen.

 

[Skrej]

Com - plet - ly

 

[Tdol]

I have a couple corsets. And somewhere I have a fountain pen.

No capital punishment?

 

[emsr2d2]

You'll probably find them in your fallout shelter, with your lava lamp and love beads and your husband's bell-bottom trousers.

Lava lamps are out of fashion? :shock:

 

[Tdol]

Brilliance like that is never out of fashion.