A-ok
The hand gesture performed by connecting the thumb and index finger into a circle (the O), and holding the other fingers straight or relaxed in the air, is a commonly-used form of nonverbal communication. In many parts of the world, it is synonymous with the word OK, denoting approval, agreement, or that all is well. In other contexts or cultures, this same gesture may have different meanings or connotations, including negative or offensive ones.
Unicode symbol U+1F44C (👌) represents this gesture.
A-OK
The gesture is sometimes called the A-OK sign, a reference to a phrase that became popular during the American space program of the 1960s.
A-ok (also, A-okay or A-OK /ˌeɪ.oʊˈkeɪ/) is a more intensive word form of the English term OK.
US Air Force Lt. Col. John "Shorty" Powers popularized the expression "A-ok" while NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury, and was reported as attributing it to astronaut Alan Shepard during his Freedom 7 flight. However, the NASA publication This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury says in a footnote: "A replay of the flight voice communications tape disclosed that Shepard himself did not use the term." and that "Tecwyn Roberts of STG and Capt. Henry E. Clements of the Air Force had used 'A.OK' frequently in reports written more than four months before the Shepard flight." Apparently, the first documented use of "A-ok" is contained within a memo from that Tecwyn Roberts, a Flight Dynamics Officer, to Flight Director (entitled "Report on Test 3805", dated Feb 2, 1961) in penciled notes on the countdown of MR-2 (Mercury-Redstone 2), dated Jan[uary] 31, 1961. In his book The Right Stuff author Tom Wolfe wrote that Powers had borrowed it from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because "the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O".
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Um Erro
by: A-OKImaginei que você não pudesse me entender
São tantas as coisas que acontecem
que é difícil de aceitar
Passamos por erros que não deveríamos passar
Erros que não nos levam a nenhum lugar
E um dia você chegou e me viu naquela condição
Sem ter como argumentar, pensar ou me defender
Agora só me resta chorar e esperar
Agora só me resta chorar e esperar
O momento às vezes sobrepõe a razão
Momento aonde o sentimento não vale mais
Mas eu sei que você gosta de mim, e eu de você
então o que fazer?
Entender, entender?
Será que um dia eu vou (novamente) te ter?
Você me ama e eu te amo...
Então o que fazer?
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