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So, why the hell have people started starting sentences with the word 'so'?

vicwatson · 2012-01-27 18:19:48

So, are we American all of a sudden? Where did this evolve from? Ugh ! Ridiculous.

27-01-2012 07:19PM

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So, are we American all of a sudden?

Where did this evolve from?

Ugh !

Ridiculous.

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#2 27-01-2012 07:21PM

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So what's your point?

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#3 27-01-2012 07:21PM

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So what?

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#4 27-01-2012 07:21PM

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Wtf is American about saying that. What's the next topic going to be about? "Why do people start conversations with Hello?"

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#5 27-01-2012 07:22PM

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So I've noticed they also use sentences that that turn into questions?

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#6 27-01-2012 07:23PM

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What about those that start a conversation with "Well"... are they turning into Limerick folk?

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#7 27-01-2012 07:23PM

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056526338

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#8 27-01-2012 07:24PM

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So....blast them with piss!

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#9 27-01-2012 07:25PM

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Like whateeeever OP

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#10 27-01-2012 07:28PM

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It's not really the proper use of the word if you think about the definitions of the word so but people say it when they are thinking of what to say like the french say um or ur a lot or some people say it to get someone's attention before asking a question, it is really just a habit.

I broke free from the UM habit when making presentations a few years ago and I don't think I noticed I was doing it before I saw myself on video.
I never felt like "so" was an American thing, "like" would be more of an American thing if that even matters at all.

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#11 27-01-2012 07:29PM

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So, I says to mabel, i says...

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#12 27-01-2012 07:30PM

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vicwatson wrote: »

So, are we American all of a sudden?

Where did this evolve from?

Ugh !

Ridiculous.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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#13 27-01-2012 07:33PM

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vicwatson wrote: »

So, are we American all of a sudden?

Where did this evolve from?

Ugh !

Ridiculous.

You're dead right, we should all go back to speaking Irish....

Says I to him.....says him to me......

Be de way, "Ugh" is an American word....ya yank!!

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#14 27-01-2012 07:35PM

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So they can have a pause or draw people's attention before they begin their sentence proper.

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#15 27-01-2012 07:35PM

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It's not as annoying as people ending sentences with "man"

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#16 27-01-2012 07:36PM

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So I was like hey, and he was like hey. And we were like heyyyyyy. So I was like O.M.G and he was like W.T.F and we were like LOL. It was literally ironic. So yeah.

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#17 27-01-2012 07:36PM

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'So' is a moment's pause to nudge the thinking process OR to catch your attention .

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#18 27-01-2012 07:37PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

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#19 27-01-2012 07:38PM

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The Germans

they always start everything

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#20 27-01-2012 07:50PM

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muppets.

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#21 27-01-2012 07:50PM

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castletownman wrote: »

It's not as annoying as people ending sentences with "man"

I end all my sentences with brother and respect.:cool:

Respect brother.:cool:

Note:Mods, may we please have a black power emoticon?

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#22 27-01-2012 08:39PM

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castletownman wrote: »

It's not as annoying as people ending sentences with "man"

Worst of all is simples, or, end of.

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#23 27-01-2012 08:53PM

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So buttons.

I hate it too. Think its a right smug way to start a sentence.

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#24 28-01-2012 01:48AM

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Rap Singers talking about the Integrity of their Music while everything about them suggests a Criminal Type who's angling for the respectability his tacky business never deserves .

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#25 28-01-2012 01:57AM

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Not as bad IMO as starting a sentence with K.

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#26 28-01-2012 01:58AM

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vicwatson wrote: »

So, are we American all of a sudden?

I guess

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#27 28-01-2012 04:22AM

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#28 28-01-2012 04:30AM

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Shryke wrote: »

Wtf is American about saying that. What's the next topic going to be about? "Why do people start conversations with Hello?"

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So, I'm afraid I'm with Shryke. Dude, it is in no way an 'americanism'. Even if it was, so what?

In general (see what I did there? No? Well fuck you, I'm not here to impress you people :pac:) I think I like the little colloquialisms that litter our speech. I don't really care where they originate. It's just a thing innit? A thing what we do.

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#29 28-01-2012 04:35AM

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Aww no, have they?? It's daunting you don't wanna have a social anxiety if someone hits you with a "so..." I mean WTF are they going to ask you?!! Its like it's in slo-mo... "sssoooo . . . . . . "

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#30 28-01-2012 04:41AM

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I recall a lot of Indian people doing this

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#31 28-01-2012 05:35AM

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Dudess wrote: »

Not as bad IMO as starting a sentence with K.

What if you're Spanish?;)

¿Qué?

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