🎶 … where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain 🎶
... but then you remembered that there are 8,000 languages in the world other than English, and recalled that "ok" has been borrowed into a ton of them.
It's the one word I can pick out when my wife is speaking Tagalog. That and the occasional Spanish phrase.
Yeah, I think I've heard literally all of my international colleagues use it talking to each other. German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese...